[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu cosmic support

[Mark Walker]

Thanks! That makes perfect sense. We have production dockers based on 18.10
that we need to rebuild regularly. Changing the base image will require a
lot of work, but we should have used an LTS distribution to begin with.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:39 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 2 December 2019 at 12:22, Mark Walker wrote:
> | We noticed that "cosmic-cran35" recently went missing from
> | http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ (apparently in mirrors as
> well).
> | Was cosmic support removed? It still seems to be in the readme file.
>
> Isn't that just the "standard phaseout" of non-LTS distribution?  While
> 18.10
> (aka "cosmic") is gone, we still have the two most recent normal releases
> as
> you have 19.04 ("disco) and 19.10 ("eoan").
>
> And then there are of course several LTS releases including "bionic"
> (18.04),
> "xenial" (16.04) and "trusty" (14.04)
>
> I tend to updated every six months (and usually a few weeks after a new one
> comes out) so the 'two most recent' ones works for me.  You should probably
> upgrade to 19.04-- or maybe just downgrade (even for the CRAN repo) to
> 18.04.
>
> Dirk
>
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