On 14 November 2023 at 09:15, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: rmatrix | Version: 1.6-2-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org | | Hi Dirk | | I'm opening this bug as a place for discussion and to track the | affected packages. It can be closed once rmatrix and its | reverse-dependencies are ready to migrate.
Well that seems to be a) the wrong severity and b) the wrong package. We need to address the packages needing a rebuild. Mine (r-cran-lme4, r-cran-rcppeigen). have been taken care of. Dirk | I've copied your email to the debian-r mailing list [1] below. | | Regards | Graham | | | [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2023/11/msg00033.html | | | Package Matrix is having a new and energetic maintainer/contributor in Mikael | Jagan who is tidying up a few loose corners (and inter alia sent me a patch | to RcppEigen that resulted in a coordinated CRAN update of RcppEigen, lme4, | and OpenMx). | | Mikael also identified two sets of packages needed a rebuild in messages to | the r-package-devel list (the more-or-less official place in the R Project to | ask / discuss package changes, it is a decent to be on) following private | mails between him and me. See | | https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q4/010051.html | https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q4/010054.html | | The first concerns packages using a LinkingTo: Matrix and building against | Matrix _headers_. The second concerns caching of S4 signatures (which bit us | at work because of SeuratObject [not in Debian] and how I got onto this). | | Most of these are not in Debian but I think we need binary rebuilds of | | irlba because of headers | OpenMx because of headers, a new upstream 2.21.10 is out too | TMB because of headers | MatrixModels because of S4 caching | | I would appreciate it if someone could tickle rebuilds. To me a quick | informal touch of debian/changelog would do; if someone thinks this needs a | formal transition go for it. | | The R Core team and the CRAN maintainers are aware of the implicit problem | with signalling the need for binary rebuilds. They are discussing this, but | do not have an answer. Historically, CRAN has informally rebuilt its binaries | for windows and macOS, but that of course does not help binary distributors | such as us, other Linux distros, Conda, r2u, ... at all. -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
