BH 1.81.0 upgrade plan

[eddelbuettel]

Boost released 1.81.0 this week, and the BH package was updated to release 1.81.0-0 in PR #87. It can be accessed from the ghrr drat via

install.packages("BH", repos=c("https://ghrr.github.io/drat", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

and similarly from r-universe. As usual we ran full reverse-dependency checks on Debian testing system (where gcc-12 is the default). The logs are in this commit at the rcpp-logs repo are reveal issues in these six packages

• colourvalues (2 out of 523 tests fail) (maintainer emailed 2022-12-15) (PR #77 made 2022-12-19) (heard back 2022-12-21 'mid-January should work') (merged 2022-12-29) (version 0.3.8 on CRAN 2023-02-06)
• httpgd (compilation error on string_view) (maitainer emailed 2022-12-15) (heard back 2022-12-16, package fix by January planned) (version 1.3.0 on CRAN 2023-02-02)
• rgeoda (compilation error, possibly only missing an include) (unrelated to BH, g++-12 issue) (PR #4 made 2022-12-16 in related library repo) (merged 2023-01-01) (version 0.0.10-2 on CRAN 2023-01-30)
• rlas (compilation issue from g++-12?) (unrelated to BH, g++-12 issue) (PR #57 made 2022-12-16) (merged 2022-12-16) (version 1.6.2 on CRAN 2023-01-06)
• rstan (possibly more complex Boost Phoenix issue) (maintainer emailed 2022-12-16) (heard back 2022-12-16: 'soon') (heard back 2022-12-26 linker issue addressed, rest possibly more involved) (version 2.21.8 on CRAN 2023-01-17)
• TDA (issue with Boost's vector) (maintainer emailed 2022-12-16) (heard back 2022-12-26, 'January should be fine') (version 1.9 on CRAN 2023-02-04)

I have or will contact all maintainers by either email or PR. The plan would be to get all packages fixed in four weeks from now to permit a mid-January CRAN upload of BH 1.81.0.

Edit 2022-12-30 We now have 1.81.0-1 (via #90) which had another round of reverse-depends checks which revealed no new or changed issue.

[nx10]

I just submitted httpgd 1.3.1 which should resolve this issue (for httpgd): http://nx10.github.io/cransubs/pkg#httpgd

If anyone is interested in the fix, boost::beast string views switched internally from boost::detail::basic_string_view to boost::core::basic_string_view in the latest version. Of these the current one does not have a .to_string() method.

Edit: It was rejected in pretest due to (I believe) (#89). I have informed CRAN.

[eddelbuettel]

Thank you so much, also for the added color. I have seen boost::core::* pop up in the context of the 'grand ole sprintf replacement' as there is a (pending/coming) boost::core::snprintf that I aded in 1.81.0-1 in order to minimize that issue.

(And good luck with CRAN. I always found them reasonable when I replied on such false positives. And an updated BH will be coming if all goes well by mid-Jan. Speaking of which, any update from the stan world @bgoodri ?)

[bgoodri]

I have a real fix. Just testing the reverse dependencies.

[eddelbuettel]

I would like to upload BH in the next few days. Of the six packages, only one (rlas) made it through. Uploading may help another (httpgd). I hope it may help rstan, colorvalues, TDA.

Thoughts?

[bgoodri]

I uploaded rstan to CRAN. It should be fine, but won't be approved until tomorrow at the earliest.

[eddelbuettel]

Cool, thanks for the update! I will try to follow-up with BH and we can continue to coordinate here.

Edit: With rstan now on CRAN I will likely follow suit very shortly.

[nx10]

Seems like BH 1.81 is now on CRAN. httpgd will follow up shortly

[eddelbuettel]

Correct. It is now up on CRAN, I mentioned this issue, the two closed one and your 'pending' httpgd as open but imminently addressable and so it was moved ahead by the CRAN maintainers after a few days.

I will close this issue as completed, we can still discuss here needed.

Big big thanks to everybody for the prompt help.

[eddelbuettel]

@nx10: Yay!

Glad to see it back!

[nx10]

Thanks! They requested a couple documentation changes so it got delayed again. 2.0 soon™