ubuntu/debian package for latest ESS

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:30:06AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

I do not know what you refer to in "the above".  Could you use a bug number, please ?

> You might want to note that in  debian/changelog  
> before releasing the debian 5.3.8-svn.... package

I tried. Could you please refer to debian/changelog, possibly with
patches.  As a certain MM wrote in another email, "that is we all have
shared SVN access..."

Dirk

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