[R-pkg-team] Bug#947004: r-base blocked by r-bioc-{iranges, s4vectors}

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 December 2019 at 14:09, Graham Inggs wrote:
| In Ubuntu, r-bioc-iranges and r-bioc-s4vectors autopkgtests failed
| with r-base/3.6.2-1.
| 
| However, after the upload of r-base/3.6.2-2, both autopkgtests passed
| on ppc64el [1][2].
| 
| Could this be related to the change for ppc64 [3]?

Possibly, yes.  R 3.6.2 brought that change, it was reported as an issue
upstream by the RedHat folks, but also integrated the changes pretty quickly
(and about the same time as upstream).

So do we "just" need to tickle rebuilds for these two?  If so, how?

Dirk
 
| [1] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/r/r-bioc-iranges/focal/ppc64el
| [2] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/r/r-bioc-s4vectors/focal/ppc64el
| [3] https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/commit/de0abdf806db7c2eebf341ff3040b11e971cef9d

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