On 04.07.2016 16:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 3 July 2016 at 18:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 07:43:49PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > | > [I've copied Matthias so he can comment on this] > | > > | > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> [2016-07-03 17:39]: > | > > For this issue (and its already long thread in the BTS): > | > > > | > > - You are correct. We need g++-6 for QuantLib, for Rcpp and then > RQuantLib > | > > > | > > - Shall I do new uploads of QuantLib (and then Rcpp) with g++-6 now? > | > > > | > > - To then be followed by a rebuild of RQuantLib? > | > > | > doko, can you suggest when to do this? If you read the bug log, > | > you'll see that there are some dependency issues. > | > | Generally speaking, when R itself builds, it stores its CC,CXX,... settings > in its > | configuration which then becomes the default. > | > | So in that case I could rebiuld R itself with g++-6. I don't have much > | experience "launching" a full binary migration in Debian but methinks > | we need this here. And once R has been rebuild, we can just do > | automatic (?) binary NMUs to get g++-6. > | > | (And for this particular bug I need to rebuild QuantLib as well.) > | > | Does that sound right? > > doko? > > Shall I start more narrowly with just Rcpp, QuantLib and then RQuantLib? > This *will* force all package depending on Rcpp to rebuild: > > $ apt-cache rdepends r-cran-rcpp > r-cran-rcpp > Reverse Depends: > r-cran-rcppeigen > r-cran-rquantlib > r-cran-xml2 > r-cran-surveillance > r-cran-shiny > r-cran-rprotobuf > r-cran-rncl > r-cran-rinside > r-cran-reshape2 > r-cran-readxl > r-cran-amelia > r-cran-rcpparmadillo > r-cran-plyr > r-cran-minqa > r-cran-htmltools > r-cran-dplyr > r-cran-bayesfactor > $ > > I maintain some but not all of these. They *will* break when you mix > compilers. > > Now, if we don't want that now, can we "defuse" (ie delay) the autoremove on > rquantlib?
hmm, but then you have to explicitly use gcc-6. Is this really something you want to do? Why not wait until gcc points to 6, and then stage your transition?
