Message-ID: <20240225174437.20ce1ca7@rolf-Latitude-E7470>
Date: 2024-02-25T04:44:37Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Package required but not available: ‘arrow’
In-Reply-To: <26072.50589.667230.533311@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:19:41 -0600
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 23 February 2024 at 15:53, Leo Mada wrote:
> | Dear Dirk & R-Members,
> |
> | It seems that the version number is not incremented:
> | # Archived
> | arrow_14.0.2.1.tar.gz???2024-02-08 11:57 ?3.9M
> | # Pending
> | arrow_14.0.2.1.tar.gz???2024-02-08 18:24 ?3.9M
> |
> | Maybe this is the reason why it got stuck in "pending".
>
> No it is not.
>
> The hint to increase version numbers on re-submission is a weaker
> 'should' or 'might', not a strong 'must'.
>
> I have uploaded a few packages to CRAN over the last two decades, and
> like others have made mistakes requiring iterations. I have not once
> increased a version number.
That's as may be but IMHO (and AFAICS) it never hurts to increment the
version number, even if you've only corrected a trivial glitch.
cheers,
Rolf
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