[R-sig-Debian] MRutter PPA versioning issue, again

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 December 2018 at 15:21, Michael Rutter wrote:
| On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:30 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
| >
| >
| > Michael,
| >
| > ESS broke again on my laptop after I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10.  The elpa-ess
| > package seems to be provided multiple times, sadly the one with xenial
| > (16.04) in its name wins ... and breaks the setup.  I one for cosmic, I had
| > one from bionic (18.04), but because the names 'wrapped' the 'x' wins over
| > 'b' and 'c'.  We had talked about that in the past, it would really be
| > preferably to use numbers.
| >
| > I am not sure how to correct this without a rebuild. Fut for starters I think
| > you need to look at what gets mirrored because the xenial version should
| > probably not be here:
| >   http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/cosmic-cran35/
| >
| > Thanks again for you do here. It's a tremendous help.
| >
| > Dirk
| 
| Just to follow-up, this has been corrected on the CRAN Ubuntu sites.
| The latest version of ESS (18.10) shares the same version number as
| Cosmic.  This caused some scripting issues and has been corrected.

Many thanks.

Dirk

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