[R-pkg-team] Bug#955316: r-cran-svglite autopkgtest fails: Error: symbol font

[Lionel Henry]

Hello.

Sorry I don't have any hints.
By the way Thomas Lin Pedersen (cc'd) is now the maintainer of svglite.

Best,
Lionel

On 4/17/20, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 upstream
> Control: forwarded -1 Lionel Henry <lionel at rstudio.com>
> Control: tags -1 help
>
> Hi Lionel,
>
> the Debian packaged version of svglite received a bug report[1] about a
> failing test.
>
> I can reproduce this by:
>
>
> r-cran-svglite/tests(master) $ LC_ALL=C R --no-save < testthat.R
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>> library(testthat)
>> library(svglite)
>>
>> test_check("svglite")
> -- 1. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30)
> -----------
> StartTag: invalid element name [68]
> Backtrace:
>  1. svglite::xmlSVG(...)
>  3. xml2:::read_xml.character(plot)
>  4. xml2:::read_xml.raw(...)
>
> == testthat results
> ===========================================================
> [ OK: 93 | SKIPPED: 5 | WARNINGS: 0 | FAILED: 1 ]
> 1. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30)
>
> Error: testthat unit tests failed
> Execution halted
>
>
>
> Do you have any hint how to fix this test?  May be its some missing
> font package we should add to the dependencies?
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955316#10
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