[R-sig-Debian] Please be careful with R 3.4.2 upgrades via CRAN, launchpad, ...

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 September 2017 at 14:50, Michael Rutter wrote:
| Corrected packages are now on the RRutter PPA (
| https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter) and soon on CRAN
| mirrors.
| 
| If you have any issues or questions, please let me know.

Nice work--thanks so much for the prompt attention. We should be back in
business, having overriden the tag to r-api-3. We'll deal with the tag
transition when we have to for R 3.5.0 and its changes.

Dirk
 
| Michael
| 
| On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
| >
| > So I now have this on my laptop
| >
| >    edd at brad:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core
| >    r-base-core:
| >      Installed: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
| >      Candidate: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
| >      Version table:
| >     *** 3.4.2-1zesty0.1 500
| >            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu zesty/main amd64
| > Packages
| >            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
| >         3.4.1-2zesty0 500
| >            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
| >         3.4.1-1zesty0 500
| >            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
| >         3.4.0-1zesty 500
| >            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
| >         3.3.2-1 500
| >            500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64
| > Packages
| >    edd at brad:~$
| >
| > and I have launched rebuilds for xenial (16.04) and trusty (14.04) which
| > should complete, possibly after another level of adjustments.
| >
| > These use r-api-3 and work for the "here and now". Use
| >
| >     sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:edd/misc
| >
| > We may propagate these for to the usual 'rrutter' and then CRAN repos too,
| > and will take it from there to figure out how to get r-api-3.4.
| >
| > I'm sorry for the disruption. My hand was a little forced but I should have
| > considered these consequences too.
| >
| > Dirk
| >
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