Public bug reported:

Many r-* packages (r-bioc-*, r-cran-*, r-other-*) are no longer being
built for armhf (not 64-bit) or s390x (not little-endian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/12/msg00106.html says that
there will eventually be **hundreds** of packages. It looks like
packages need source uploads to adjust Build-Depends to force them to
only be built for the desired architectures, but that hasn't been done
for many affected packages yet.

The current list can be found at
https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html
and then searching for these:
missing build on armhf: r-cran
missing build on s390x: r-cran
missing build on s390x: r-bioc
missing build on armhf: r-other
missing build on s390x: r-other

(r-bioc and r-other packages aren't ready for removal yet. r-bioc-*
armhf packages were already removed for oracular, so those removals will
only be s390x packages).

An Archive Admin can probably write a script to handle this. And it will
need to be re-run periodically as the Debian packages are uploaded.

Let's use this bug as a tracking bug. Please don't file individual bugs
for affected packages or add targeted packages in the Launchpad UI since
Launchpad doesn't handle large numbers of packages on a single bug well.
(dh-r is Architecture: all so it doesn't need any removals itself, but I
needed to pick a package to use for this tracking bug.)

Other notes
===========
The ultimate list might be everything in
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=r-pkg-team%40alioth-lists.debian.net&version=testing
that shows more than 1 architecture in the buildd column. But we'll still need 
to wait for uploads.

https://bugs.debian.org/1118697 . I don't think it's very relevant to
Ubuntu at the moment since the promised new version of r-bioc-
biocgenerics was not uploaded to Debian yet.

- https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.html
- https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt (This is a log of removals for the 
current year. I don't see any related removals for 2025.)

** Affects: dh-r (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: resolute

** Description changed:

  Many r-* packages (r-bioc-*, r-cran-*, r-other-*) are no longer being
  built for armhf (not 64-bit) or s390x (not little-endian.
  
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/12/msg00106.html says that
  there will eventually be **hundreds** of packages. It looks like
  packages need source uploads to adjust Build-Depends to force them to
  only be built for the desired architectures, but that hasn't been done
  for many affected packages yet.
  
  The current list can be found at
  https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html
  and then searching for these:
  missing build on armhf: r-cran
  missing build on s390x: r-cran
  missing build on s390x: r-bioc
  missing build on armhf: r-other
  missing build on s390x: r-other
  
  (r-bioc and r-other packages aren't ready for removal yet. r-bioc-*
  armhf packages were already removed for oracular, so those removals will
  only be s390x packages).
  
  An Archive Admin can probably write a script to handle this. And it will
  need to be re-run periodically as the Debian packages are uploaded.
  
  Let's use this bug as a tracking bug. Please don't file individual bugs
  for affected packages or add targeted packages in the Launchpad UI since
  Launchpad doesn't handle large numbers of packages on a single bug well.
+ (dh-r is Architecture: all so it doesn't need any removals itself, but I
+ needed to pick a package to use for this tracking bug.)
  
  Other notes
  ===========
  The ultimate list might be everything in
  
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=r-pkg-team%40alioth-lists.debian.net&version=testing
  that shows more than 1 architecture in the buildd column. But we'll still 
need to wait for uploads.
  
  https://bugs.debian.org/1118697 . I don't think it's very relevant to
  Ubuntu at the moment since the promised new version of r-bioc-
  biocgenerics was not uploaded to Debian yet.
  
  - https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.html
  - https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt (This is a log of removals for 
the current year. I don't see any related removals for 2025.)

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