On 1 March 2024 at 23:36, Aurelien Jarno wrote: | Source: r-base | Version: 4.3.3-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: ftbfs | Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) | User: debian-gl...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: libtirpc-dev | | Dear maintainer, | | Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been | moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth | transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added | to the libc6-dev package. | | The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1 | NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes the xdr | feature of r-base to be dropped, I am not sure it is something to care | about. | | Therefore please either: | - Add libtirpc-dev as build dependency
I'll do that. We don't have that much little vs big endian out there anymore but it is a feature that was long supported so it should remain supported. Dirk | - Disable the xdr feature support explicitly so that it does not depend | on the packages installed on the system. | | Regards | Aurelien -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
