ubuntu/debian package for latest ESS

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>>     on Wed, 14 May 2008 15:48:37 +0000 writes:

    DE> Well, I guess we need to triage them all.  

    DE> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:29:52PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
    >> Hmm, I'm now looking at that and see --- the only bug marked as important
    >> >> Package: ess
    >> >> Version: 5.3.0-1
    >> >> Severity: important
    >> >> Justification: fails to build from source

    DE> 'Fails to build from source' (or FTBFS for the iniated) typically
    DE> arises when the toolchain changes. It comes up all the time as some
    DE> people (like Lucas) have access to grids with >> 100 cpu and often
    DE> auto-rebuild the entire archive. 

    DE> I think this was just a matter of changing (old) Depends on tetex to
    DE> (new) Depends on texlive. That one is clearly in my Debian court.

    DE> Leaving bugs 

    DE> * #440194: ess: Tries to load when package is removed
    DE> * #371058: ESS cannot detect help(foo, package=bar)
    DE> * #400382: ess: options(error=recover) in R confuses ESS
    DE> * #442159: ess: upgrade to fix complaints about .Last.value

    DE> * #456001: Warning: make-variable-buffer-local' should be called at toplevel

I now have also committed a change to fix the above.
You might want to note that in  debian/changelog  
before releasing the debian 5.3.8-svn.... package

Martin



    DE> * #443462: ess: "bad refcard layout"

    DE> all of which seem to be 'upstream'.