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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 January 2021 at 20:09, Graham Inggs wrote:
| Hi Dirk
| 
| On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 16:13, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| > This is a bug in glmmTMB.
| 
| I don't see how you can be so sure.

Experience around R. glmmTMB is a huge package with many dependencies, there
will be a stale one in the path. I can "almost guarantee you" that with a
clean rebuild of all components it will pass. As it does on every other
platform.

Dirk

| > All the 'gradient function must ...' errors are from its tests and
| > points to me to a recent change in R (where boolean comparisons can now check
| > if the compared vector is corre.  The Matrix change may simply be the trigger.
| 
| This seems to be unrelated to the version of R.  If you look at the
| test results in Ubuntu [1], the failures started with the upload of
| rmatrix/1.3-0-1, continued with rmatrix/1.3-2-1, and then went away
| when rmatrix was reverted to 1.2-18.
| 
| This doesn't mean there's a bug in rmatrix, it could be an expected
| change in behaviour (on big-endian systems).  If this is the case,
| then r-cran-glmmtmb needs to be adapted for this new behaviour.
| 
| Regards
| Graham
| 
| 
| [1] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/r/r-cran-glmmtmb/hirsute/s390x

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