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

Hi,

Am 19.08.26 um 23:57 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> Le Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 07:30:37PM +0100, Richard Lewis a écrit :
>>
>> I think you should ask yoursekf: what is the ask of upstream?
> […]
>> bluntly, from the start, i gather R doesnt support riscv64 at all: so
>> why should they care?
>
> Thanks Richard for your comments,
>
> What we uncovered by building on riscv64 may be either a niche problem
> that upstream does not have to feel responsible for, or an existential
> problem that usptream has to engage with years ahead with hard work:
> what if the next mainstream architecture on Win, Apple or Linux also
> does not have NaN payload propagation like riscv64 today?
>
LibreOffice is in the same boat.


FWIW, that sounds like the same as/related to

https://salsa.debian.org/libreoffice-team/libreoffice/libreoffice/-/blob/master/libreoffice-calc.templates?ref_type=heads

shown only on risvc64, cf. https://salsa.debian.org/libreoffice-team/libreoffice/libreoffice/-/blob/master/libreoffice-calc.postinst.in?ref_type=heads


Regards,


Rene