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

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Andreas

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 12:12, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> My motivation for the change was that for
> example in r-bioc-mutationalpatterns (see bug #983027) the
> autopkgtest-pkg-r script failed to install all needed packages
> to run its test.  This was not the only package that was affected.

This sounds like #961138.

> I'd like to discuss this quickly whether I'm again on the wrong track.

In my opinion, dh-r 20210301 with the commit [1] reverted should be OK
for bullseye.  We should be able to see the effect in unstable soon
after your upload.

> The effect would be that *a few* tests in r-bioc- packages will become
> superfluid but that should be bearable for the moment.

What about skipping pkg-r-autopkgtest on the few affected packages?
We would lose a lot of test coverage if you disabled it everywhere.
Let's hear opinions from the rest of the team.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/commit/62a4128c07a17de845e9d7260504fae187c3d193