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,

Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-04-05, Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr wrote: 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

Re: 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

Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?

2014-04-05 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 07:40:49PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2014-04-05, Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr wrote: 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.

Re: 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