R SIG Debian - Aug 2020 - Fwd: Accepted mgcv 1.8-32-1 (source) into unstable

Hi Dirk, hi all,

----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------

Betreff: Accepted mgcv 1.8-32-1 (source) into unstable
Datum: Donnerstag, 20. August 2020, 18:06:49 CEST
Von: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
An: debian-devel-changes at lists.debian.org

Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:41:33 -0500
Source: mgcv
Architecture: source
Version: 1.8-32-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Changed-By: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Changes:
 mgcv (1.8-32-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
 .
   * debian/control: Set Build-Depends: to current R version

---snip---

This message reminded me that I never got the point of why the adaptation of 
the build dependency is necessary or beneficial for these uploads of CRAN 
packages to unstable. Shouldn't they build on older R versions as well, as 
demonstrated by the CRAN checks?

Johannes

---snip---

............
   * debian/compat: Set to 10
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mgcv_1.8-32-1_amd64.buildinfo

Hi Johannes,

On 20 August 2020 at 18:27, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Hi Dirk, hi all,
| 
| ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
| 
| Betreff: Accepted mgcv 1.8-32-1 (source) into unstable
| Datum: Donnerstag, 20. August 2020, 18:06:49 CEST
| Von: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
| An: debian-devel-changes at lists.debian.org
| 
| Format: 1.8
| Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:41:33 -0500
| Source: mgcv
| Architecture: source
| Version: 1.8-32-1
| Distribution: unstable
| Urgency: medium
| Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| Changed-By: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| Changes:
|  mgcv (1.8-32-1) unstable; urgency=medium
|  .
|    * New upstream release
|  .
|    * debian/control: Set Build-Depends: to current R version
| 
| ---snip---
| 
| This message reminded me that I never got the point of why the adaptation of 
| the build dependency is necessary or beneficial for these uploads of CRAN 
| packages to unstable. Shouldn't they build on older R versions as well, as
| demonstrated by the CRAN checks?

Somewhat wrong list. You want to talk to the debian-r folks who wrote
this. See debian-r at lists.debian.org which should be open to join.

Dirk

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