gaborcsardi, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

@brodriguesco It is actually a good thing. This way old metadata that refers to the older version of the package still works. They would ideally keep the older files around for a couple of days.

_TimTaylor, 15 days ago

@brodriguesco looks like the latest has a dependency on R4.4.0 so the older one is still the one utilised by earlier R versions so being kept available. Same thing with Matrix. Things are a little tricky with the recommended packages. There were also a few wrinkles over the last couple of days so possible this/you got caught up in those as well (see Simon’s post at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-April/083383.html).

mdsumner, 15 days ago

@brodriguesco latest and previous release, dev is looking for the latest, previous and still suppoted needs the earlier one

Seems to be a flaky aspect of CRAN Recommended packages, mostly affects Matrix because it actually gets used

brodriguesco, 15 days ago

@mdsumner was this always the case? something seems to have changed since the 4.4.0 release, because my automated pipeline to build binaries for Nix is failing since yesterday. It thought it might be related to this.