[Rd] Last R-devel snapshot is an empty tarball

[Peter Dalgaard]

Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:

> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
> > Herve Pages <hpages at fhcrc.org> writes:
> >
> >> Dear list,
> >> 
> >> The last R-devel snapshot (2006-10-03) is an empty tarball:
> >>   ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
> >
> > We know... "make dist" was broken for a while. The unstable
> > development version will occasionally develop instabilities...
> 
> Might this be a good forum to announce such problems when they become
> known?  

Yes, in principle. We tend to want to fix them rather than announce
them, though. (It wasn't realized that there was a problem until
yesterday when Kurt was adjusting his package check procedures after
Tuesday's release.)

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