[R-pkg-team] Bug#947004: Bug#947001: r-base blocked by r-bioc-{iranges, s4vectors}

[Graham Inggs]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 17:04, Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 16:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> > On the other hand the ppc64 is one of 'blocking compilation' so it can't
> > really segfaults at tests.
>
> I don't know what that means, but both the r-bioc-iranges and
> r-bioc-s4vectors autopkgtests with r-base/3.6.2-1 on ppc64el showed:
>
> An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Looking closer, the failing tests above were with
r-base/3.6.2-1build1, which was uploaded by an Ubuntu developer and
included the PPC fix.

No autopkgtests were run with r-base/3.6.2-1 in Ubuntu because it
didn't build on all architectures.

Autopkgtests continue to pass with r-base/3.6.2-2 on ppc64el, and the
only diff between it and 3.6.2-1build1 is in the changelog [1].
Autopkgtests continue to fail with r-base/3.6.2-2 on amd64, arm64,
armhf and s390x.


[1] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/456137318/r-base_3.6.2-1build1_3.6.2-2.diff.gz