[R-pkg-team] Bug#949659: r-cran-parameters: autopkgtest regression

[Graham Inggs]

Source: r-cran-parameters
Version: 0.3.0-1
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Severity: serious
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: regression

Hi Maintainer

Sometime between 2020-01-13 and 2010-01-18, r-cran-parameters' 
autopkgtests started to fail in unstable [1] with the following error:


══ testthat results 
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
[ OK: 176 | SKIPPED: 1 | WARNINGS: 18 | FAILED: 2 ]
1. Failure: model_parameters.BFBayesFactor 
(@test-model_parameters.BFBayesFactor.R#16)
2. Failure: model_parameters.BFBayesFactor 
(@test-model_parameters.BFBayesFactor.R#28)

Error: testthat unit tests failed


This is likely due to an upload of new a version of another package. 
This should be caught by r-cran-parameter's autopkgtests and prevent 
migration of that other package, but will not, because 
r-cran-parameter's autopkgtests have always failed in testing [2] due to 
the following errors:

E: Package 'r-cran-brms' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'r-cran-caic4' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'r-cran-nfactors' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'r-cran-rstanarm' has no installation candidate

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-parameters/unstable/amd64/
[2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-parameters/testing/amd64/