On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:03:06PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > But the whole point of my bug report, and write up, is that > > 46 > > out of 516 package need a rebuild. > > So I continue to argue [2] that we should rebuild these 46, not force all 516.
If I may ask, "why?". When you find yourself sending this to the debian-devel mailing list ... > - I filed it on July 16. > - I followed up on July 29. > - I followed up on August 6. > - I answered a question on August 10. > - I followed up on August 19. > - I answered a question on August 26, and followed up on August 26. > > I am at wits end. > > Dirk ... please, consider the price it's having on your sanity. It seems that the whole set of R packages is 0.5GB of binaries. By comparison, a minor bugfix in texlive-bin results in a 1GB download for anyone who's installed it from Unstable. Regards, Steve
