[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#699260: r-cran-genabel: FTBFS: error: subscript out of bounds

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: r-cran-genabel
Version: 1.7-0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130129 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS in wheezy on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in *wheezy*, your package failed to
build on amd64.

Relevant part:
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src'
> installing to /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-genabel/usr/lib/R/site-library/GenABEL/libs
> ** R
> ** data
> ** demo
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** installing vignettes
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'GenABEL', details:
>   call: stringSplit[[1]]
>   error: subscript out of bounds
> Error: loading failed
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-genabel/usr/lib/R/site-library/GenABEL'
> make: *** [R_any_arch] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2013/01/29/r-cran-genabel_1.7-0-1_wheezy.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.