Mass removal of 32-bit support in r-cran-* packages?
Hi all,
CRAN and Bioconductor do not test their packages on 32-bit architectures
anymore for a while.
As of today, when one of our packages fail on i386, armel or armhf, one
possible solution is to make it build-depend on architecture-is-64-bit
and file a request for removal on these three architectures on the BTS
to ftp.debian.org. And it has to be done recursively when it is not a
leaf package.
This is manual work on both sides and the end of the story is that one
day, Debian will stop releasing i368, armel and armhf, and that decision
will not depend much on whether R packages supports them or not. So I
am increasingly feeling that it is too much of a burden to do this
tedious work of only removing r-* packages as they break one by one.
What would you think about just dropping 32-bit support entierly for all
the r-cran-* and r-bioc-* and their reverse-dependencies? This way we
would only need to ask for one mass-removal to the FTP team, and on our
side we would mostly need one mass source-only upload with routine-update
--64 --force.
Hace a nice day,
Charles
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