On 29 April 2020 at 13:23, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | R 4.0.0 was released as scheduled on Friday, source packages have been in | experimental since Friday too. | | There is one build failure on ppc64el but we now know what causes it so a bug | fix from upstream should be forthcoming shortly. The bug can also be | circumvented by (on that platform only) configuring with --disable-long-double. | | As such, we're ready, so I may I would like to nudge you towards considering | a start for this transition. R is reasonably widely used language that is | very well supported in Debian, and it would be good to have this updated | upstream version be part of Debian testing and the next release.
New release 4.0.0-2 also builds on ppc64el (by disabling long double support, which upstream may also make the default for this platform) and is ready. Please schedule a transition for r-base. I will then upload 4.0.0-3 to unstable as soon as I get your green light. Cheers, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
