Message-ID: <x28yrz5n0o.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2003-06-18T17:01:30Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: R: Debian package and source
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306181832300.20378-100000@igor.ifi.unizh.ch>
"David Andel" <andel at ifi.unizh.ch> writes:
> Hi
>
> As Dirk said before, if you're running unstable, the official
> version is surely the best. If you're running testing though, you're
> probably better off using the apt sources listed in
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ReadMe since there are
> some dependency hassles with installing the unstable version on
> testing (at least I got tired of going through all the dependency
> stuff).
>
BTW, is there a good reason to keep the "testing" distribution at
1.6.0? I would assume that at least you'd want to include patches up
to 1.6.2 rather than ship a version with known bugs. Not wanting to
get into the 1.7.x series is understandable, of course.
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