[R-pkg-team] Bug#949658: Different tests for r-cran-recipes - "wrong" test prevents migration of r-cran-testthat

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:30:35AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 11:21, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> > and I have no idea how to fix this.  May be there is some unspecified
> > versioned Build-Depends or something like this.
> 
> This is the kind of bug that autopkgtests blocking testing migration
> is supposed to catch.
> 
> I see you uploaded r-cran-recipes 0.1.9+dfsg-2 which should migrate
> soon.  Let's see if that improves the situation.  If not, please file
> a new bug for r-cran-recipes and leave #949658 for r-cran-rlang.
> 
> On the subject of r-cran-rlang, I notice upstream's DESCRIPTION file contains:
> 
> Depends: R (>= 3.2.0)
> Suggests: cli, covr, crayon, magrittr, methods, pillar, rmarkdown,
>         testthat (>= 2.3.0)

OK, I'll upload

r-cran-rlang (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Versioned Test-Depends: r-cran-testthat (>= 2.3.0)
  * New upstream version
  * Standards-Version: 4.5.0 (routine-update)
  * Set upstream metadata fields: Bug-Submit, Repository.

 -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Sun, 26 Jan 2020 09:12:54 +0100


BTW, I'd be really happy if you would simply commit such changes like
  Versioned Test-Depends: r-cran-testthat (>= 2.3.0) 

 
> This must be where the minimum version of testthat is specified, and
> somehow that needs to end up in debian/control or
> debian/tests/control.

I fail to see how this will finally help since the strange regression
of

   autopkgtest for r-cran-recipes/0.1.9+dfsg-2: amd64: Regression ♻ , arm64: Test in progress

for r-cran-testthat seems to remain.  So r-cran-testthat will not
migrate and the specified versioned Depends will not be fullfilled.
 
Kind regards

        Andreas.

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