[R-pkg-team] Bug#963111: r-bioc-biocparallel: autopkgtest regression on ppc64el

[Graham Inggs]

Source: r-bioc-biocparallel
Version: 1.22.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: bullseye sid
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: regression

Hi Maintainer

Since the upload of 1.22.0-1, r-bioc-biocparallel has been failing its
own autopkgtests on ppc64el [1].

I've copied what I hope is the relevant part of the log below.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-biocparallel/unstable/ppc64el/


RUNIT TEST PROTOCOL -- Sun Jun 14 07:38:12 2020
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Number of test functions: 72
Number of deactivated test functions: 5
Number of errors: 0
Number of failures: 1


1 Test Suite :
BiocParallel RUnit Tests - 72 test functions, 0 errors, 1 failure
DEACTIVATED test_bpaggregate: Doesn't work on Debian autopkgtest infrastructure
FAILURE in test_bpaggregate_formula: Error in checkIdentical(x2, x3) : FALSE

DEACTIVATED test_stop.on.error: Doesn't work on Debian autopkgtest
infrastructure
DEACTIVATED test_SnowParam_coerce_from_MPI: 'snow' and/or 'Rmpi'
package did not load
DEACTIVATED test_SnowParam_MPI: MPI tests not run
DEACTIVATED test_SnowParam_workers: 'snow' and/or 'Rmpi' package did not load

Test files with failing tests

   test_bpaggregate.R
     test_bpaggregate
     test_bpaggregate_formula

   test_errorhandling.R
     test_stop.on.error

   test_SnowParam.R
     test_SnowParam_coerce_from_MPI
     test_SnowParam_MPI
     test_SnowParam_workers


Error in BiocGenerics:::testPackage("BiocParallel") :
  unit tests failed for package BiocParallel
Execution halted
autopkgtest [07:38:12]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 1