[R-sig-Fedora] R 4.0.0

[Tom Callaway]

Hmmm. That seems like a rather heavy dependency, given that I think we've
only been forced to do rebuilds for everything as a result of 4.0.0 and
3.4.0.

Does anyone know if upstream has any sort of commitment to ABI here that we
could depend on (e.g. only breaking on major versions, never minor) ?

Tom

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:32 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar using fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 05:46, Tom Callaway <tcallawa using redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thinking out loud here... do we want to have some macro magic to embed a
> > dependency on an R(ABI) provides? Where R 4.0.0 would provide R(ABI) = 4
> > and all R packages built against it would pick up Requires: R(ABI) = 4 ?
>
> Note that recompilation is sometimes required too for minor version
> changes, so the virtual provides should include the minor version to
> be in the safe side.
>
> > I don't suppose we need it, since the likelihood of someone installing R
> > module packages but not updating R is low, but I wanted to throw it out
> > there.
>
> Or updating R and not updating R packages. Even if the chances are
> low, I think it's a cheap thing to add and would make the installation
> more robust to this kind of issue.
>
> --
> Iñaki Úcar
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