On 24 April 2012 at 08:16, Johannes Ranke wrote: | On Tuesday 24 April 2012 00:32:20 Don Armstrong wrote: | > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Johannes Ranke wrote: | > > this sounds great! But why don't you use the R 2.15.0 backport to | > > squeeze on CRAN? | > | > Primarily because I want a build against the version of R actually in | > Debian squeeze. | > | > I'll probably also do a secondary set of builds against a backported | > R, but when I do that, I'll either upload it to backports.debian.org | > myself (or ideally someone else will beat me to it.) | | Sounds good. I won't be the one as I am not a DD. Backporting troubles lately | have been zero, so it is _probably_ not a huge amount of maintenance work,
One thing that comes to mind is that I always had to patch the two m4 files as R Core / Brian Ripley insisted on finding '1.0.6' as the version of bzip2 even though Debian's 1.0.5 had all the relevant security patches... So I guess we rely on backports having the right version too. Which should be a safe bet. debian/rules is a bit of a mess code-wise, but the functionality is stable and solid so I have little inclination for doing a rewrite just for rewrite's sake. | thanks to Dicks careful packaging for unstable. Hah. I don't get too many German people writing that 'Dick' variant. More common around here.... Dirk (with an r :-) -- R/Finance 2012 Conference on May 11 and 12, 2012 at UIC in Chicago, IL See agenda, registration details and more at http://www.RinFinance.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
