severity 365804 serious tags 365804 -pending thanks Hi Dirk,
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:26:28AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> It will work fine once the R version that is currently in unstable migrates
> to testing -- presumably in two or three days as it has passed 8 out 10 days
> of the required waiting period.
However, because r-cran-rodbc's dependency on r-base-core (>= 2.0.0) is also
satisfied by r-base-core 2.1.0-1 in sarge, which I don't imagine is any more
compatible with r-cran-rodbc 1.1.6-2 than 2.2.1-6 is, this breaks partial
upgrades from stable, which is still an RC bug. If r-cran-rodbc 1.1.6-2
needs r-base-core 2.3, then it needs to depend on it explicitly so that
installing r-cran-rodbc from etch on a sarge system doesn't give you a
broken package.
The converse is also true; if the new r-base-core is incompatible with old
versions of r-cran-rodbc, then r-base-core should conflict with those old
versions...
BTW, r-base isn't actually very close to getting into testing.
$ grep-excuses r-base
r-base (2.2.1-6 to 2.3.0-1)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Too young, only 9 of 10 days old
out of date on hppa: r-base-core, r-mathlib (from 2.2.1.svn37779-1)
Not considered
[...]
$
It needs to build successfully on hppa first. I've requeued it now since
the build failure looks like a transient buildd problem, but there've so far
been two *different* transient buildd problems keeping it from building, so
it remains to be seen how many iterations it'll actually take to get it
built...
Cheers,
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