Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 176763
Releases of R should be co-ordinated with dependent packages
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:20 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Galeon/2.0.0 Description of problem: Releases of R should be co-ordinated with other dependent packages. Case in point: the upgrade of R to 2.2.1 breaks the rpy package (bug #176762), and there maybe others. Unfortunately rpy doesn't have an explicit dependency on a particular R version so it makes it a bit difficult to know this dependency or check it automatically (it probably should be added), but rpy will fail at runtime. This bug is a tracker for other R version dependent packages and to bring it to the R maintainer's notice that co-ordination with dependent packages is required to avoid breakage. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): R-2.2.1-2.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See bug #176762 Additional info:
To help manage issues like this, I've created a mailing list: fedora-r-devel-list http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
Any reason that the archives for this list aren't public?
Oversight? :) Should be public now.