Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 06:54:37PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: The patch has three parts. I presume we want to kill the third? --- r-base-3.2.0.orig/debian/control 2015-05-11 00:20:08.947567937 +0100 +++ r-base-3.2.0/debian/control 2015-05-11 00:20:51.498702854 +0100 ---

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 07:34:46PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 11 May 2015 at 00:33, Julian Gilbey wrote: | The only thing I'm not sure about, and you may have a better view, is | whether r-cran packages should depend only on the api version (so: | Depends: r-api-3), or whether they

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 04:46:30PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Hi Julian, On 10 May 2015 at 22:20, Julian Gilbey wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | Well, jessie has been released now. Once again without any breakage for R or R-related packages ... Indeed. See the long discussion in the bug

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Julian, On 10 May 2015 at 22:20, Julian Gilbey wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | Well, jessie has been released now. Once again without any breakage for R or R-related packages ... | Please can you upload a version of r-base which addresses this issue, | providing a Provides: r-base-api-3.0 field,

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Dirk, Well, jessie has been released now. Please can you upload a version of r-base which addresses this issue, providing a Provides: r-base-api-3.0 field, and modifying the r-base-dev scripts as described in the bug report. As has been explained repeatedly in these bug reports, this is (a)

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
The patch has three parts. I presume we want to kill the third? --- r-base-3.2.0.orig/debian/control2015-05-11 00:20:08.947567937 +0100 +++ r-base-3.2.0/debian/control 2015-05-11 00:20:51.498702854 +0100 --- r-base-3.2.0.orig/debian/r-cran.mk 2015-05-11 00:20:08.979567287 +0100 +++

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2015-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 May 2015 at 00:33, Julian Gilbey wrote: | The only thing I'm not sure about, and you may have a better view, is | whether r-cran packages should depend only on the api version (so: | Depends: r-api-3), or whether they should also depend upon the actual | base version (Depends: r-base-core

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:21:33PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: The disagreement comes from the fact that the maintainer does not think that he must declare this incompatibility. For now, if you install a r package from testing, it will pull the r-base-core from testing (due to dependency

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi everybody, In #704805, there is a disagreement between the maintainer of R software and several other people (me included). R software is packaged into a lots of different Debian packages (with different maintainers) along with the main R package (r-base-core). Due to internal changes,

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 05/04/2014 21:21, Vincent Danjean wrote: Hi everybody, [...] I'm interested by having more inputs on this point, hence my mail to d-d. Just for information, I forgot to add debian-devel before sending my mail, so I bounced it just after (ie it will arrive at d-d but this is not

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The maintainer think that he does not need to do anything about that. People should just upgrade all their packages from stable to testing when r-base-core is upgraded. Other people (and me) disagree and think that other broken r-related packages must be either removed or upgraded

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:21:33PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: The disagreement comes from the fact that the maintainer does not think that he must declare this incompatibility. For now, if you install a r package from testing, it will pull the r-base-core from testing (due to dependency

Bug#704805: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi Dirk, Charles and everybody! I was going to share my current and very positive experience with Qt5 providing a virtual package as Charles suggest, but looking further in the bug log I see that at least Scott and Don have already done so with other examples. So just allow me Dirk to tell