[R-pkg-team] Bug#959413: r-cran-rgdal: autopkgtest failures with GDAL 3.1.0

[Bas Couwenberg]

Source: r-cran-rgdal
Version: 1.4-8-1
Severity: important
User: debian-gis at lists.debian.org
Usertags: gdal-3.1

Dear Maintainer,

The autopkgtest for you package fails with GDAL 3.1.0 from experimental:

 autopkgtest [09:49:06]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------
 BEGIN TEST srs_rendering.R
 
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 > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(rgdal))
 > getPROJ4VersionInfo()
 [1] "Rel. 7.0.0, March 1st, 2020, [PJ_VERSION: 700]"
 > getGDALVersionInfo()
 [1] "GDAL 3.1.0, released 2020/04/28"
 > d <- system.file("vectors", package="rgdal")
 > shps <- ogrListLayers(d)
 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
   what():  std::bad_alloc
 Aborted
 autopkgtest [09:49:07]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
 autopkgtest [09:49:07]: test run-unit-test:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
 run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 134
 
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/r/r-cran-rgdal/5203587/log.gz

Kind Regards,

Bas