Call me 5045038792 On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 7:57 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org > > R 4.0.0 will be released on April 24. The upstream team always follows a > well-publicised scheduled which started yesterday with the first 'alpha' > release candidate, which I uploaded to experimental [1] > > R does change internals every now and then with the annual releases; this > is > a major one which will require rebuilds of all packages. > > The transition will be managed jointly by R package maintainer (myself) and > the Debian R Packages Team. Using the 'debian-r' list (as in the CC above) > is > an efficient way to reach everybody. We have managed similar transitions > before with R 3.4.0 and R 3.5.0. Note that last year's main release, R > 3.6.0, > did *not* require a rebuild hence the r-api-3.5 entry in the ben file > below. > > Ben file: > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > title = "r-base"; > is_affected = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5" | .depends ~ "r-api-4.0"; > is_good = .depends ~ "r-api-4.0"; > is_bad = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5"; > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Special shoutout to Dylan and especially Graham for double-checking > required > steps here. > > Cheers, Dirk > > [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/r-base > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > >
