R on riscv64 (Re: building fewer packages or reduced functionality on i386)

Le Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 02:20:25PM +0300, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
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>riscv64 is not yet used in HPC, but work on that is ongoing.[1]
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>[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405221610_Monte_Cimone_v3_Where_RISC-V_Stands_in_High-Performance_Computing

Hi Adrian and riscv64 porters,

The R language has some imporance in scientific computing performed on
HPC clusters, and I think that our autopktests have uncovered a serious
issue between the language and the architecture, which I worry might be
release-critical.

I have summarised the issue on https://wiki.debian.org/R/riscv64 (thanks
to the original input from Aurélien Jarno) and I want to contact the
core R developers (who do not yet support that architecture formally),
but before that I wanted to be totally confident in what I wrote, and I
asked for proofreading on the riscv porters mailing list, three times.
Unfortunately, I had no answer…

I do not want to open now a full discussion on what to do in Debian for
Forky, but I would be relieved and grateful if I could have another pair
of eyes checking https://wiki.debian.org/R/riscv64 before it reaches
outside Debian circles.

Have a nice week-end,

Charles

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