Shall we just remove all team-maintained r-cran-* packages from i386 or all 32-bit platforms in Trixie?
Hello everybody,
with the amount of effort I can provide to the maintainance and release of the
r-cran-* packages I already worry about being able to have the r-cran-* and
r-bioc-* packages in good shape for Trixie.
In that sense, I think that issues on 32-bit platforms are a total distraction.
Especially for i386, where the kernel and installer teams do not provide
support anymore, I do not think that we have any user who really needs our
packages to be in Trixie.
I think that the whole dance of disabling autopkgtests one by one as issues
arise, to avoid specific package removals that take time to everybody, is
actually very costly in the long term, if one makes the sum of the time for
fixing each package individually. And now we also have i386 FTBFS bugs to
solve on top of that...
I propose to remove all of our team-maintained r-cran-* packages and their
whole dependency chain on 32-bit platforms from Trixie. This way, it is a
single request to the FTP team.
I volunter to re-upload all team-maintained r-cran-* pakcages with the use of
`routine-update --64`, which automatically adds architecture-is-64-bit in their
control file. This task fits well the way my Debian time is distributed over
the weeks.
Have a nice day,
Charles
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