[R-pkg-team] Bug#983748: dh-r: pkg-r-autopkgtest breaks autopkgtests

[Graham Inggs]

Source: dh-r
Version: 20210218
Severity: serious
Tags: sid bullseye
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: issue


Hi Maintainer

The recent upload of dh-r causes autopkgtests using pkg-r-autopkgtest
to fail.  See for example the output of r-bioc-affy [1] below.
Presumably caused by this commit [2].

grep: debian/*.substvars: No such file or directory
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13:
Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock
(/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
autopkgtest [06:13:16]: test pkg-r-autopkgtest: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [06:13:16]: test pkg-r-autopkgtest:  - - - - - - - - - -
results - - - - - - - - - -
pkg-r-autopkgtest    FAIL non-zero exit status 100

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-affy/testing/amd64/
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/commit/62a4128c07a17de845e9d7260504fae187c3d193