[R-pkg-team] Bug#955316: Besides missing xml2 there is another problem (Was: Bug#955316: r-cran-svglite autopkgtest fails: there is no package called 'xml2')

Andreas Tille andreas at fam-tille.de
Sun Mar 29 21:18:52 BST 2020


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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 09:11:04PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> -- 1. Error: (unknown) (@test-colour.R#2)
> -------------------------------------
> there is no package called 'xml2'
> Backtrace:
>  1. base::library(xml2)

OK, this is fixed.

> -- 15. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30)

However, this problem remains and once xml2 is added as Test-Depends
the test suite fails with:

...
> 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(...)
 5. xml2:::doc_parse_raw(...)

== testthat results  ===========================================================
[ OK: 93 | SKIPPED: 5 | WARNINGS: 0 | FAILED: 1 ]
1. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30) 
...


I was hoping that adding
   Depends: fonts-symbola
(as per Git[1]) would help but it does not change anything.

Any help is welcome

       Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-svglite

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