[R-sig-Debian] missing newer elpa-ess 24.01.1-5 package for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS?

[Andrew Piskorski]

My machine running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS uses the cloud.r-project.org
repository, as described in the instructions here:

  https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

That recently upgraded my r-base-core, which UNINSTALLED elpa-ess.
That's because the only available elpa-ess is version 24.01.1-1, which
r-base-core says is too old, via the "Breaks:" line shown below.

Is there a plan to make the newer elpa-ess available via the same
noble-cran40 repository r-base-core is coming from?  If not, is there
somewhere else we should get it from?

Currently, it looks like the official Ubuntu repositories have the
newer elpa-ess 24.01.1-5 available for Ubuntu 26.04 (resolute), but
only the older 24.01.1-1 is available for Ubuntu 24.04.4 (noble).
We can see that here:

  https://pkgs.org/search/?q=elpa-ess&on=name
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ess

My current workaround is simply to install ESS v25.01.0 from the
Github source.  (v26.01.0 doesn't seem to be tagged in Git.)
Fortunately this isn't hard, and so far seems to work fine:

  https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
  https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS


Output from my machine:
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$ apt show r-base-core | egrep '^(Package|Version|Breaks):'
Package: r-base-core
Version: 4.6.0-4.2404.0
Breaks: elpa-ess (<< 24.01.1-5~), r-cran-gsl (<< 2.1-8-1+b1~), r-cran-rlang (<< 1.1.5-3~)

$ apt show elpa-ess | egrep '^(Package|Version|Breaks):'
Package: elpa-ess
Version: 24.01.1-1

$ grep DESCRIPTION /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS"

$ grep '^deb' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-https_cloud_r-project_org_bin_linux_ubuntu-noble.list
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/
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Andrew Piskorski <atp using piskorski.com>