[R-pkg-team] Bug#982483: Bug in r-base and r-cran-rcppparallel

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Kevin,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:20:38AM -0800, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but there is a Debian patch for RcppParallel here:
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/patches/r-cran-rcppparallel/5.0.2+dfsg-3/use_debian_packaged_libtbb.patch/
> 
> and all that does is force RcppParallel to use the Debian-provided
> copy of TBB as opposed to the version normally bundled and installed
> by RcppParallel itself.
> 
> Is the implied bug in the RcppParallel patch, or in RcppParallel itself?

The bug is inside the patch you linked to.  However, the fix Bastian
suggested requires a fix in R itself.  Dirk kept you in the row whether
you might imagine some other solution that does not require a change in
R.

(I personally need to admit I need to trust you here since despite I'm
packaging lots of R packages for Debian my R knowledge is extremely
limited.)

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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