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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 December 2019 at 08:02, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| 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).
 
On the other hand the ppc64 is one of 'blocking compilation' so it can't
really segfaults at tests.

Dirk

| 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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