[rkward-devel] R 2.8.0 breaks rkward

[Michael Rutter]

Hello.

I maintain Ubuntu packages on CRAN for amd64.  Today, the new version of 
R (2.8.0) came out, and I am unable to build an rkward package based 
around 2.8.0.  Turns out the decision has been made to remove Rdevices.h 
and Rgraphics.h from the installed portion of R.  They still exist in 
the source code, however.  Since Rdevices.h is not available to ubuntu, 
the build fails under hardy and intrepid.  Same problem with the package 
rpy.

Not sure what the fix is, but at this point I think we are going to 
release R 2.8.0 builds for ubuntu without an update to rkward.  Would 
have found this sooner, but testing packages is one of the last things 
on the list.

Thanks,
Michael
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