[R-pkg-team] Bug#979026: r-cran-rgdal: autopkgtest failure with PROJ 7.2.1

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 1/2/21 6:54 AM, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> The autopkgtest of your package fail with PROJ 7.2.1:
> 
>  Error: isTRUE(all.equal(a, matrix(c(-5.917698, -1.87195), ncol = 2),  .... is not TRUE
>  Execution halted
>  autopkgtest [23:01:36]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
>  autopkgtest [23:01:36]: test run-unit-test:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
>  run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 1
> 
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-rgdal/9312472/log.gz
> 
> This appears to be an issue with how upstream uses PROJ incorrectly,
> as discussed on the PROJ list:
> 
>  https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/proj/2020-December/010014.html
> 
> Upstream doesn't appear to have a public VCS, so it's unclear if the fix
> posted on the PROJ list can be easily turned into a patch for the Debian
> package.

Further investigation shows PROJ 7.2.1 related commits at:

 https://github.com/r-forge/rgdal/commits/master

Kind Regards,

Bas

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