Aw: Re: Dropping big-endian (s390x) support for some r-bioc-* packages
I like this thought. My only concern would be that we should have a way to at least inform upstream about platform-specific failures, so we should at least try to build them if the dependencies are available.
Best,
Steffen
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2024 um 13:34
> Von: "Charles Plessy" <plessy@debian.org>
> An: debian-med@lists.debian.org, debian-r@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Dropping big-endian (s390x) support for some r-bioc-* packages
>
> <html><head></head><body>Le Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 12:53:56PM +0200, Michael R. Crusoe a écrit :
> >
> > So I propose to add a "architecture-is-little-endian" build-dep to the following packages and request the removal of their s390x builds from the archive:
> >
>
> Hi Michael and everybody,
>
> I am all for it but I would like to propose something bigger.
>
> Let r-bioc-biocgenerics (or r-bioc-biocbase) provide a virtual package
> called r-bioc-supported-architectures available for amd64 and arm64
> only, and make all r-boc-* depend on it at the next BioC release (which
> takes place this month).
>
> People who want r-bioc-* packages on other architectures can first work
> on portability issues outside the Debian main archive, and can create
> a local version of r-bioc-supported-architectures to enable building
> BiocC on what they want. If the mass-build looks sustainable we can
> consider add, maybe after consulting BioC upstream about future
> prospects.
>
> I think that bioinformaticians can aim for other architectures if they
> have appetite for the work it represents, and portrers can aim for
> bioinformatics if they have the workforce for it, but by default we
> should not build these packages everywhere because it puts the whole
> burden on mostly just us.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Charles
>
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