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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:55:31 -0600 From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> To: Debian Developers <[email protected]> CC: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms Sorry for the alarming headline but #913982 was filed, indepedently corrobated and simultaneously discovered by upstream. GNU R has long been relying on sed, tar, bzip2, ... and many more base tools. No issues there. Generally looked for in /bin and found there. Starting with binary rebuild r-base_3.5.1-1+b2 however, /usr/bin/* path crept in while the binaries where still in the wrong place. It looked like a one-off so I uploaded 3.5.1-2 which built fine for me on amd64 ...but apparently is already borked again on i386. I am at bit of loss here. Any ideas? Please CC me on replies. I will keep a look at the list archive too. Cheers, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
