Hi Thomas, On 2 May 2018 at 22:27, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: | Dear R debian maintainers! | | As maintainer of rkward, I will be affected by the "r-base-3.5" | transition. Could you help me by answering the following two questions? | | 1) Is there any (upper / lower) time estimate on when 3.5.0 will enter | sid? I have at least one somewhat-important-but-easy-to-fix-issue | pending for rkward. So far I figured I would delay this until R 3.5.0 | has entered sid, and I need to make a new upload, anyway. Now I'm | starting to wonder, how much delay that will actually mean.
I think nobody really knows. We discussed this a little in the debian-r list, and it now depends on the release team who are managing the transition. It may well be weeks. | 2) In principle, rkward will build fine for anything from R 3.0.0 | upwards, and it is not hard to support this in the debian packaging | (with appropriate deps, of course). I am wondering, whether or not this | is a good idea wrt to the transition, though. Should I make my next | upload build-depend on r-base-core >= 3.5.0, or should I keep it | flexible? I think for the _source code in the repo_ I would keep flexible. But for _binary_ packages in Debian unstable I usually set the R version used. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian