Re: .. slider -- fixing R 4.2.2-only bug in as.Date.POSIXlt()
On 12 November 2022 at 15:13, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel
| > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/r/r-base/r-base_4.2.2-1_changelog
|
| Thank you, Dirk.
| (The above URL is not quite correct but it was not hard to find
| the correct one.)
I pasted from what was a working URL for me.
| I can see that you want to do this.
|
| >From the point of view of maintenance (and communicating with
| users and bug reports!) this *is* far from optimal (*), but of
| course Debian must have its own priorities.
It has its own build and package system which imposes its own constraints.
But you run the package it of course _internally_ uses the upstream scheme.
$ dpkg -l r-base-core | tail -1 | cut -c-42
ii r-base-core 4.2.2.20221110-1 amd64
$ R --version | head -1
R version 4.2.2 Patched (2022-11-10 r83330) -- "Innocent and Trusting"
$
I (personally) speaking would like this as (guessing a patch revision here)
R version 4.2.2.3 Patched (2022-11-10 r83330) -- "Innocent and Trusting"
which I could easily package as 4.2.2.3 (and I use four digits on my own
packages to signal intermediate release; Rcpp is currently 1.0.9.5 and
accessible thanks to drat on a repo that way). Is it worth making upstream
changes for that? Maybe not, your call not mine.
When we tried to be too cute with version names "stuff broke" including
processing of manuals as texidvi (or another texinfo part) got confused. Such
as life, you have to compromise sometimes.
| Thank you anyway a lot for your debian maintenance work!!
Thanks a lot for your upstream work!
Dirk
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