[R-sig-Debian] R 3.3.0 for Debian jessie on the way to CRAN, not for wheezy
Johannes Ranke
jranke at uni-bremen.de
Wed May 4 14:16:42 CEST 2016
Dear all,
I have just completed the backport of the newly released R 3.3.0 to Debian
jessie for the CRAN repository, together with the usual update of the other
(recommended) packages supplied there.
It will hit the CRAN mirrors shortly.
For wheezy, I do not plan to backport R 3.3.0, as this would entail
backporting, and keeping up to date with security releases, a couple of other
packages, triggered by the versioned dependency on curl >= 7.28.
Also, R 3.2.5 is considered a very stable release ("Very, Very Secure
Dishes"), so I think this matches the requirements of people still running
wheezy.
On another note, the backport of R 3.2.5 that Andreas Tille prepared, was just
accepted to jessie-backports. In my mind, this is a first step towards
complementing the CRAN backports (which feature only three architectures) and
maybe even superseeding them in the future.
Kind regards,
Johannes
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