Bug#887682: r-cran-utf8: FTBFS on m68k: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Andreas Tille tille at debian.org
Mon Mar 26 11:04:30 UTC 2018


On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 08:53:22PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Dylan Aïssi <bob.dybian at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This package was built correctly for m68k on 2018-02-27 [1].
> > Can we close this bug?
> 
> Yes, please.  IIRC, this failure turned out to stem from a problem with
> the build setup (specifically, a qemu bug); sorry for the noise.

Question: Is real m68k hardware used at all or is it just some people
like you who run qemu instances for whatever reason?  This is an honest
question since I'm pretty sure that no scientific software (like R and
others) have any use on m68k and I'm afraid it just drains time from
you (and other porters) and maintainers.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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