[R] 1.2.3 debian version

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> > I'm wondering why there isn't yet the debian version of R 1.2.3. Am I
> > missing something?
>
> The Debian maintainer (Hi Doug) hasn't gotten around to packaging it. But
> as he righly pointed out to me in private, 1.2.3 hasn't changed that much
> from 1.2.2 on architectures other than the Mac.

Look at the length of the bug fix list ....  1.x.y, y>0 releases are
bug-fix releases, so on that reasoning there would not be a Debian release
of 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 either, or a Windows release, or ....

Still, 1.3.0 is slated for mid-June ....

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