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

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Andreas

I see the following in #1042548 [1]:

> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:02:08 +0530 Nilesh Patra <nilesh at debian.org> wrote:
> > New version of rhdf5filters enables vbz and zstd compression as well but
> > these have been ignored with a debian specific patch. As a result it
> > enables only lz, blosc and bzip2.
>
> I have pushed some changes to salsa to get this moving. However I
> noticed that upstream itself has disabled vbz temporarily[1]. so it
> makes sense to support this for us only when upstream does so as well.
> So we should re-visit this in the next version.

Yet it seems 1.12.1+dfsg2-1 was uploaded with vbz compression still enabled:

   [ Nilesh Patra ]
   * Enable VBZ compression as well

Perhaps the fastest solution here is to revert enabling vbz support in
r-bioc-rhdf5filters for now.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1042548#10