[Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
[...]
>
> This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu
>>
>
> The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include
> zlib.


My bad, sorry about that. I thought R-devel (trunk) will be released next,
obviously not.


> Whereas R-devel will not be released (as 3.3.x) until 2016.
>

Great, I just hope that Travis will upgrade before that. Although the end
of life of 12.04 is April 2017.

Thanks,
Gabor

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