Bug#767884: r-cran-spatstat: autopkgtest stuck in eternal error loop, causing huge log

[Martin Pitt]

Package: r-cran-spatstat
Severity: important
Version: 1.37-0-1
User: autopkgtest-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: autopkgtest

Hello,

this autopkgtest now started to wreak havoc. Like in [1] or [2] it now
gets stuck in an eternal loop like

| error reading package index file /usr/lib/R/site-library/tcltk2/tklibs/getstring0.1/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
| error reading package index file /usr/lib/R/site-library/tcltk2/tklibs/autoscroll1.1/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
| error reading package index file /usr/lib/R/site-library/tcltk2/tklibs/datefield0.2/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
| error reading package index file /usr/lib/R/site-library/tcltk2/tklibs/ipentry0.3/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
| error reading package index file /usr/lib/R/site-library/tcltk2/tklibs/Diagrams0.2/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
| [...]

which produces several GB of log files until it eventually times out.
(The hugeness of logs causes some "interesting" effects in Jenkins and
probably also ci.d.n.)

I don't know what's wrong with those .tcl files, unfortunately.

Thanks in advance!

Martin

[1] http://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-spatstat/unstable/amd64/
[2] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/vivid-adt-r-cran-spatstat/
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