R SIG Debian - Sep 2017 - Please be careful with R 3.4.2 upgrades via CRAN, launchpad, ...

Please be careful with upgrades to R 3.4.2.

To cut a long story short, this has to do with minor internal changes in R
3.4.0 from April which require _some_ packages to be rebuilt. I argued for
that approach (ie: incremental, careful, no side effects) within Debian, and
lost.  The _official_ packages in Debian now carry a new tag r-api-3.4 (as
opposed to previous r-api-3) in order to force clean updates with matching
packages.

But matching packages is the key. _Everyting_ needs to be rebuilt.

We will get there.  In the meantime, do not install an r-base-core providing
r-api-3.4.  I failed to give Michael a heads-up so the PPA builds he so
promptly provides carried this for a moment. I am right now rebuilding R
3.4.2 in my PPA with a r-api-3 tag for transition.  Those should work once we
have zesty, yakkety, xenial, trusty, ... images as needed.

Michael and I will figure out how and where to go from here to meet that
requirement of r-api-3.4 with limited disruption.

Thanks to Jeroen for crying wolf on Twitter, as little as I like to discuss
issues there it is still a good news beacon. (And for now mailing here too.)

I'll post updates.  Working with r-api-3, and of course paying attention to
what apt tells us should work fine. "Should".

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

So I now have this on my laptop

   edd at brad:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core
   r-base-core:
     Installed: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
     Candidate: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
     Version table:
    *** 3.4.2-1zesty0.1 500
           500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu zesty/main amd64
Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
        3.4.1-2zesty0 500
           500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
        3.4.1-1zesty0 500
           500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
        3.4.0-1zesty 500
           500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
        3.3.2-1 500
           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 Packages
   edd at brad:~$

and I have launched rebuilds for xenial (16.04) and trusty (14.04) which
should complete, possibly after another level of adjustments.

These use r-api-3 and work for the "here and now". Use

    sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:edd/misc

We may propagate these for to the usual 'rrutter' and then CRAN repos
too,
and will take it from there to figure out how to get r-api-3.4.

I'm sorry for the disruption. My hand was a little forced but I should have
considered these consequences too.

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

Corrected packages are now on the RRutter PPA (
https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter) and soon on CRAN
mirrors.

If you have any issues or questions, please let me know.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> So I now have this on my laptop
>
>    edd at brad:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core
>    r-base-core:
>      Installed: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
>      Candidate: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
>      Version table:
>     *** 3.4.2-1zesty0.1 500
>            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu zesty/main amd64
> Packages
>            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>         3.4.1-2zesty0 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.4.1-1zesty0 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.4.0-1zesty 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.3.2-1 500
>            500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64
> Packages
>    edd at brad:~$
>
> and I have launched rebuilds for xenial (16.04) and trusty (14.04) which
> should complete, possibly after another level of adjustments.
>
> These use r-api-3 and work for the "here and now". Use
>
>     sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:edd/misc
>
> We may propagate these for to the usual 'rrutter' and then CRAN
repos too,
> and will take it from there to figure out how to get r-api-3.4.
>
> I'm sorry for the disruption. My hand was a little forced but I should
have
> considered these consequences too.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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