[R-pkg-team] Bug#971681: r-cran-openmx regression on arm, will not migrate to testing due to failing autopkgtests

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Joshua,

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:59:18AM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 04:07:59PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > While I could include this as a patch I wonder whether you plan to do a
> > new release featuring this patch in the next couple of days.  If this is
> > the case I would wait for the new release with an upload to Debian.
> 
> Prior to the next release, we'd like to address the failures on armhf as 
> well. However, we don't have experience debugging on the armhf 
> architecture. I anticipate that it will take us a while to get up to 
> speed. Hence, it may be weeks before the next release rather than days.

Any news about this?  Some kind of point release would be very helpful,
thought.  In case it will work at least on arm64 we could ignore armhf
issues for the most practical use cases and exclude this architecture
for Debian until it gets finally fixed.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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