ubuntu/debian package for latest ESS

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>>     on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:47:42 +0000 writes:

    DE> 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.

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

#456001


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

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

but I don't speak Debian-English .. even my regular English
seems confusing enough ...

Since my commit added to lisp/ & lisp/ChangeLog I did not want to
add to yet another changelog, particularly, since the change
was *not* in the debian/ subdirectory but rather the lisp/ one.

The main reason for my e-mail was that you should note the svn
commit ..

Martin


    DE> Dirk

    DE> -- 
    DE> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.