r-base transition

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Dear all,

as some of you already know, we have completed recently the gfortran 
transition. One of the libraries involved was r-base, which now doesn't 
provide anymore libRblas.so (uses the blas one instead). Unfortunately quite 
a number of packages have been built already with the older version and are 
now broken (see for instance LP bug 217742 and bug 219245). A quick search 
with apt-cache shows the following R libraries (from packages depending on 
r-base-core) still linking against libRblas.so:

/usr/lib/R/site-library/eco/libs/eco.so:        libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fArma/libs/fArma.so:    libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fAsianOptions/libs/fAsianOptions.so:    libRblas.so => 
not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fGarch/libs/fGarch.so:  libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fNonlinear/libs/fNonlinear.so:  libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fOptions/libs/fOptions.so:      libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fRegression/libs/fRegression.so:        libRblas.so => 
not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/fUnitRoots/libs/fUnitRoots.so:  libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/lme4/libs/lme4.so:      libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so:  libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/MNP/libs/MNP.so:        libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/polspline/libs/polspline.so:    libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/qtl/libs/qtl.so:        libRblas.so => not found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/quadprog/libs/quadprog.so:      libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/robustbase/libs/robustbase.so:  libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/site-library/tseries/libs/tseries.so:        libRblas.so => not 
found
/usr/lib/R/library/mgcv/libs/mgcv.so:   libRblas.so => not found

Any volunteer to help to manually upload all the rebuild patches will be 
highly welcome.
Please coordinate your work through bug 219346 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/219346).

Thanks,

Cesare