Bug#852925: r-cran-zelig: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependencies: r-cran-survey, r-cran-aer

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: r-cran-zelig
Version: 5.0-13-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170128 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Install package build dependencies                                           |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> Setup apt archive
> -----------------
> 
> Merged Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-r, r-base-dev (>= 3.0), r-cran-sandwich, r-cran-mass, r-cran-survival, r-cran-vgam, r-cran-jsonlite, r-cran-plyr, r-cran-dplyr, r-cran-quantreg, r-cran-geepack, r-cran-mcmcpack, r-cran-coda, r-cran-amelia, r-cran-matchit, r-cran-maxlik, r-cran-survey, r-cran-aer
> Filtered Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-r, r-base-dev (>= 3.0), r-cran-sandwich, r-cran-mass, r-cran-survival, r-cran-vgam, r-cran-jsonlite, r-cran-plyr, r-cran-dplyr, r-cran-quantreg, r-cran-geepack, r-cran-mcmcpack, r-cran-coda, r-cran-amelia, r-cran-matchit, r-cran-maxlik, r-cran-survey, r-cran-aer
> dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-r-cran-zelig-dummy' in '/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-r-cran-zelig-dummy.deb'.
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning: Packages in archive but missing from override file:
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning:   sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy sbuild-build-depends-r-cran-zelig-dummy
> dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 2 entries to output Packages file.
> Ign:1 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive ./ InRelease
> Get:2 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive ./ Release [963 B]
> Ign:3 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive ./ Release.gpg
> Get:4 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive ./ Sources [599 B]
> Get:5 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-Ym1Ft4/apt_archive ./ Packages [677 B]
> Fetched 2239 B in 0s (216 kB/s)
> Reading package lists...
> W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
> Reading package lists...
> 
> Install r-cran-zelig build dependencies (apt-based resolver)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Installing build dependencies
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  sbuild-build-depends-r-cran-zelig-dummy : Depends: r-cran-survey but it is not installable
>                                            Depends: r-cran-aer but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> apt-get failed.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/01/28/r-cran-zelig_5.0-13-1_unstable.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.