On 9 September 2017 at 16:18, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | But since I do not want to waste my time, I first need to be sure that you would | accept such a patch.
Re-read http://eddelbuettel.github.io/rcppapt/binnmuAfterR340.html and construct (using R and my RcppAPT packages) the set of packages that - are reverse depends of r-base-core in Debian (just over 500+ iirc) - have a src/ directory, ie are Archicture: any - have .C or .Fortran calls below R/ - use dynamic symbol registration - but ignore whether they have been rebuilt so it would differ from my analysis. I reckon that you would end up with maybe 100 to 150 (a guess) packages for which you would need a Breaks: declaration. Now I, as maintainer of r-base, feel that I would not serve my users with the added fragility of 100+ breaks statements. But you are of course free to create a locally patched package for local tests and users. We know how quickly a local apt repo can be created. As having this functionality seems rather important to you (while I remain more than sceptical) I suggest you work on that in such a local package. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
