Package: plr
Severity: normal
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As of 8.3.0.6-1 in Debian, pl/R does not have a versioned dependency
on R. According to its author, Joe Conway, it should. See exchange
below. The safest thing would be to depend on the version of R it was
built against. R changes versions quite frequently, so this is likely
to be annoying for users who are trying to stay current with R (eg.
via Dirks packages on CRAN), but better than having the package break
in mysterious ways. I'll forward the bug report to the pl/R mailing
list. Possibly Joe has an opinion about this.
Regards, Faheem.
Package: postgresql-8.3-plr
[...]
Version: 1:8.3.0.6-1
[...]
Depends: r-base-core, postgresql-8.3, libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
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Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> PL/R should be built against the same major versions at least, but
>> ideally same dot release as well.
>
> Hmm. The Debian package does not have a versioned dependency against R.
> Should I file a bug?
I would think. Whenever R has a major release (e.g. 2.8.x -> 2.9.0)
there is risk of API/ABI changes, similar to Postgres.
Joe
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