As you may know, I look after the R package for Debian. My fellow Debianers make me follow a specific protocol -- a so-called "transition" in which all dependent packages on an identified potential breakge are rebuilt under the new (potentially breaking) change. We started adding an r-api-3.4 tag last (major) release. Now it is r-api-3.5 and the transition got started with the green light from the release team last Friday.
Now one build failure occurred for one of the (old, effectively litte maintained) RMetrics packages: fBasics. It blows up at the byte-compilation step on at least four (older, smaller) architectures: mips, mipsel, arm64 (ubuntu), ppc64el. More at https://bugs.debian.org/900756 where we also worked out the "solution" of suppressing byte-compilation at installation. Luke, Tomas, ...: Would it help you to get access to such hardware? We may get you some sort of "guest pass" access to porter machines. Else I could try but I have my hands plenty full with the transition (having built [and finally transferred to our Debian Gitlab instance] 20+ package during day two of R/Finance...). Cheers, Dirk PS I CC'ed the bug report, if any follow-up keep the CC it gets logged there. PPS Happy to discuss / help off-list too, of course. -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
