Further Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

Charles Plessy plessy at debian.org
Sun Apr 14 08:36:39 UTC 2013


Le Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:18:05AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
> 
> I would be really terrific if the the debian-med, debian-science, debichem
> teams could update some of these packages.  
> 
> Charles, failing that, shall we coordinate off-list?  Re-building in chroot
> takes about a minute or two each but sadly some of these package appear
> effectively orphaned (eg gpplot2, single upload 15 months ago -- is that
> really work done to Debian standards?)

Hi Dirk and everybody,

my pace is aproximately one package per day, partly because instead of
rebuilding I take the opportunity to upgrade when new upstream releases are
available (and as you noted, a lot accumulated during the Freeze).

Everybody's help is welcome, especially for the trivial rebuilds.  We have our
packages managed in Subversion and Git repository, but if this is bothering, I
think that we can cut corners with a simple NMU with no changes, that will be a
branch in the version tree.

Also, for the architecture-dependant packages, we can request binary NMUs,
although I have been reluctant to do so in order to not disturb the Release
team.

For ggplot2, we are working on the update (#700862), but it needs the
introduction of new packages (r-cran-gtable, accepted this week, and
r-cran-scales, to be uploaded).  For the short term, I just uploaded a NMU to
rebuild the package.

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles



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