[R-sig-Debian] Backport of R 2.9.1 to lenny available

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Ted, hi Michael, hi all,

I had a go at updating the R packages for etch to R 2.9.1 - I ran into 
the "five-year-old" bug, see 

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531569

so I added the repository 

   deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/texlive2009 etch main

of Frank Küster, one of the tex package maintainers of the Debian
distribution, to the pbuilder sources.list.

Unfortunately, this does not work for amd64, as no binaries are
available for the updated packages. 

Therefore I did not update the official etch-cran repository. If you
would like to have R 2.9.1 on etch for i386, try

   deb http://chem.uft.uni-bremen.de/r-cran etch-cran/

Kind regards,

Johannes

* Ted Harding <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> [090717 17:40]:
> On 17-Jul-09 15:20:10, Michael Dewey wrote:
> > At 15:21 07/07/2009, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > 
> >>Dear all,
> >>
> >>You can now find i386 and amd64 packages of R 2.9.1 compiled for lenny
> >>in the usual place on CRAN.
> >>
> >>I have switched from using permanent schroot environments to
> >>exclusively
> >>using pbuilder, in order to check build dependencies as early in the
> >>process as possible.
> >>
> >>Is anyone in need of an R 2.9.1 backport to etch (oldstable)? I do not
> >>need it myself, so I am thinking of leaving it at R 2.9.0 for etch.
> > 
> > Johannes, nobody else seems to have replied to the list but I for one 
> > would welcome continued backports to etch-cran although it is not 
> > necessary to have all the minor releases (if that is the right name, 
> > the ones which only differ after the second .). Perhaps I should say 
> > why? I have a netbook (EEEPC) which would probably be tricky to 
> > upgrade and I am not yet confident enough to wipe the whole thing and 
> > restart with Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Thanks to you and the others on the team who make installation so 
> > straightforward enough for novices like me.
> 
> May I add my voice to this? (I somehow overlooked it originally).
> I'm actively running Etch for main work (though experimentally
> trying Lenny on another machine -- so far, Etch seems to suit my
> tastes better). Therefore having etch-cran kept up to date would
> be welcome.
> 
> Ted.
> 
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> Date: 17-Jul-09                                       Time: 16:37:20
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