[R-pkg-team] Bug#980809: Bug#980809: rmatrix: breaks autopkgtest of r-cran-glmmtmb on s390x

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Graham,

On 23 January 2021 at 00:21, Graham Inggs wrote:
| On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 23:38, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| > Can you still please talk to the corresponding Debian maintainer for glmmTMB
| > so that he/she can walk it upstream?
| 
| I have assigned this bug to both packages, until we can figure out
| where the fix needs to happen.
| 
| > The package is clean where it matters:
| > https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_glmmTMB.html
| 
| Are they doing any tests on big-endian architectures?  Remember s390x
| is our only big-endian release architecture, and r-cran-glltmb's
| autopkgtests have green lights on all our little-endian architectures,
| so this hints to an endianness bug to me.

No CRAN does not test on s390x or comparable.  But the change in Matrix was
also relatively small.

But I will contact its main maintainer and also CC the glmmTMB maintainer.

Dirk

-- 
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org