R SIG Debian - Dec 2019 - Ubuntu cosmic support

Hi,

We noticed that "cosmic-cran35" recently went missing from
http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ (apparently in mirrors as well).
Was cosmic support removed? It still seems to be in the readme file.

Mark Walker, PhD
Computational Biologist
Methods Group, Data Science Platform
The Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA

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On 2 December 2019 at 12:22, Mark Walker wrote:
| We noticed that "cosmic-cran35" recently went missing from
| http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ (apparently in mirrors as well).
| Was cosmic support removed? It still seems to be in the readme file.

Isn't that just the "standard phaseout" of non-LTS distribution? 
While 18.10
(aka "cosmic") is gone, we still have the two most recent normal
releases as
you have 19.04 ("disco) and 19.10 ("eoan").

And then there are of course several LTS releases including "bionic"
(18.04),
"xenial" (16.04) and "trusty" (14.04)

I tend to updated every six months (and usually a few weeks after a new one
comes out) so the 'two most recent' ones works for me.  You should
probably
upgrade to 19.04-- or maybe just downgrade (even for the CRAN repo) to 18.04.

Dirk

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

Thanks! That makes perfect sense. We have production dockers based on 18.10
that we need to rebuild regularly. Changing the base image will require a
lot of work, but we should have used an LTS distribution to begin with.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:39 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 2 December 2019 at 12:22, Mark Walker wrote:
> | We noticed that "cosmic-cran35" recently went missing from
> | http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ (apparently in mirrors as
> well).
> | Was cosmic support removed? It still seems to be in the readme file.
>
> Isn't that just the "standard phaseout" of non-LTS
distribution?  While
> 18.10
> (aka "cosmic") is gone, we still have the two most recent normal
releases
> as
> you have 19.04 ("disco) and 19.10 ("eoan").
>
> And then there are of course several LTS releases including
"bionic"
> (18.04),
> "xenial" (16.04) and "trusty" (14.04)
>
> I tend to updated every six months (and usually a few weeks after a new one
> comes out) so the 'two most recent' ones works for me.  You should
probably
> upgrade to 19.04-- or maybe just downgrade (even for the CRAN repo) to
> 18.04.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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