Hi Jeroen, On 12 March 2005 at 18:09, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end. | | without, I assume.
Yup. Thanks for spotting that from context. | > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to | > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in | > my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges. | | Why do you still include that package then? If that package stops | existing, you shouldn't build it anymore IMHO. Having an empty package There is no "build". The source package r-base creates eleven binary packages. Of these eleven, one will go away. So "building" this one is essentially costless in the context of the otherwise moderately costly (~25 minutes in my pbuilder with all the build-depends taking maybe 5 minutes to configure) build. By keeping the package for now, I get an opportunity to show the NEWS.Debian file, and tell folks _who had r-gnome installed_ that theu could get the sources from svn. The good thing is that I don't bother the majority of R users who didn't install this additional UI at all. | only has use if it's a transition package depending on the renamed | package. Since this isn't what r-gnome will be as far as I understand | you, you should simply stop building r-gnome from r-base. People | upgrading will notice r-gnome will be uninstalled (if dependencies force | that) Is that what will happen? I tend to force tight Depends on the same version. So we'd upgrade from 2.0.1-4 for r-base-core and r-gnome to, say, at release time of R 2.1.0 2.1.0-1 for r-base-core with no r-gnome. Wouldn't that block r-base because no suitable r-gnome is found for it? | or that it is obsolete (otherwise, if they use a proper frontend | like aptitude). It'd otherwise also be a bit of a bummer if someone | installs r-gnome, only to discover it's an empty package. I intend to withdraw r-gnome at the next round (i.e. R 2.2.0 in October) with the usual conficts/replaces (and provides if I need it, I think I don't). Thanks, Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]