On 8 January 2016 at 16:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Le vendredi 08 janvier 2016 à 08:59 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | | > On 8 January 2016 at 14:54, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | > | Package: r-base-core | > | Version: 3.2.3-1 | > | Severity: grave | > | > That will deprive a couple (ten or hundred) thousand users of R because ... | | > ... neither I not R Core have mips access, as this may become | > release-critical and block R. :-/ | | Note that all newly uploaded CRAN packages are already blocked from | migrating to testing, since they FTBFS on a release arch. And this does | not depend on the severity of the present bug report. | | Also note that, as a Debian developer, you have access to a mips machine | (minkus.debian.org) with a sid chroot.
Thanks for the reminder. I have used that in the past for some of the exotics, but the machines names tend to change, the procedures tend to changes etc pp. We can probably square this up. It smells like something due to gcc-5 as the same code worked for years. Every now and then we do have to tell the compiler to chill ... | I'll try to see if I can help you on this issue (though I am largely | ignorant on the R internals and on the mips specifics). You could also | try to contact the MIPS porters list (debian-m...@lists.debian.org) to | get some help. Sure, thanks. In the past sometimes I did hear back, and sometimes I did not. Dirk | Cheers, | | -- | .''`. Sébastien Villemot | : :' : Debian Developer | `. `' http://sebastien.villemot.name | `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
