On 12 March 2026 at 07:25, Paul Gevers wrote: | While I understand the frustration of some people with some of the | architectures that we have in Debian, trying to support architectures is | part of what makes Debian Debian. If you're fine with supporting R | itself so far, don't proactively drop support for it. | | r-base is a key package (some r-cran packages are as well by the way, by | the looks via r-recommended), it's extra work (typically not trivial) to | remove it. It probably requires also changes to how some of our desktop | environment manage their dependencies if it wouldn't force them out | completely on those architectures. Please contact the porters before you | do that.
That wasn't my plan. R builds everywhere, I am happy to support it everywhere. But I am still a little fuzzy on Charles's plan. So are we adding the restricting qualifier to Build-Depends to all r-cran-* packages? That also feels extreme. What I really want is my Rcpp (upstream) aka r-cran-rcpp package unplugged. See Subject. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
