[R-pkg-team] Bug#1037439: Opinions about removal of 32bit architecture for r-cran-rstan (Was: Bug#1037439: r-cran-rstan/armhf FTBFS with r-cran-bh 1.74)

[Nilesh Patra]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 03:45:28PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> But nobody suggested to turn 32bit builds for R off so it was not a question
> that needed adressing. Or did I miss something here?

Maybe my wording was a little confusing. I meant to keep the support for
rstan by applying the patch (which Adrian supplied) to r-base.

> If upstream does not want to 'own' this I concur that removeal is sensible
> even for a package with dependencies.  Stan is for power users on performant
> machines and these MCMC runs take a loooooong time. Turning i386 off is a
> sensible choice in my book.

I am okay with i386 in particular being dropped (there was recently a
discussion to even drop i386 from debian), but not all 32-bit archs that
we support. There are many packages where upstream does not own the
same, and we still do support it on 32-bit archs in some way. The
maintainence cost (with the patch) does not look very high to me, so I'd
consider keeping the support for now.

-- 
Best,
Nilesh
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