Re: Shall we just remove all team-maintained r-cran-* packages from i386 or all 32-bit platforms in Trixie?
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 06:42:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> 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.
( As someone who's not very active any more in this team: )
It sounds good to me, and I believe, given the resources we have, it's in the
best interest of our users. And we've been having this discussion before, too.
Thanks for your efforts!
Bye,
Joost
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