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Re: Conflict between R 4.5 and some (mostly r-bioc 3.20) R packages



On 28 April 2025 at 22:26, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
| I have now uploaded what should be enough to get r-base 4.5.0 into 
| testing (but I could easily be wrong about that).

Big big thank you to you!
 
| For the packages that are failing on a 32-bit architecture and blocking 
| r-cran-testthat (r-cran-hdf5r/rcmdcheck/s2), I added a warning on load 
| on 32-bit systems and skipped the autopkgtest.  Partial removal is also 
| an option, but might involve uploading quite a lot of packages, as 
| r-cran-sf/spdep and hence ~100+ packages depend on r-cran-s2.

It's a loaded topic, as per prior emails by Charles and by Simon, but the
simple fact remains that _upstream_ stopped supported i386 several releases
ago [1] and given our limited resources it is likely a battle we do not
really want to be in.

Dirk

[1] I had to look it up but it was apparently with R 4.2.0 three years ago.


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