[R-pkg-team] Bug#1057203: r-bioc-rhdf5filters: missing build-dependency on big-endian architectures

[Graham Inggs]

Source: r-bioc-rhdf5filters
Version: 1.12.1+dfsg2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-s390 at lists.debian.org

Hi Maintainer

A commit on 2023-08-01 [1] added a build-dependency on
libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev, which is not available on big-endian
architectures, and prevents r-bioc-rhdf5filters from building on s390x
[2], where it built previously, thus blocking migration.

The package libvbz-hdf-plugin does not build on big-endian
architectures [3] due to a missing build-dependency on
libstreamvbyte-dev, and libstreamvbyte itself FTBFS on big-endian
architectures [4].

According to:
reverse-depends --release sid --recursive r-bioc-rhdf5filters

r-bioc-rhdf5filters has many reverse-dependencies on s390x, so rather
than dealing with all of these, it may be simplest to fix
libstreamvbyte.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-rhdf5filters/-/commit/78ced3f3c70fe29db3ba16bc2b57da5ab0e4fa6c
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-bioc-rhdf5filters
[3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libvbz-hdf-plugin
[4] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libstreamvbyte