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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Graham,

I would like to check whether my fix for dh-r was successful.
Unfortunately I'm again and again stumbling about this kind of
debci pages:

   https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-mutationalpatterns/

I discussed several times with Paul Gevers about this view.  I consider
it not helpful to print test results of very outdated versions for
unstable (even older then the version in testing) and have no link to
the latest version.  Paul gave some reasons for this view (sorry, I
failed seeking my mailbox and also can't find it in the web archive).

I wonder what you think and whether you know a link where I can
have a simple access to the most recent test results.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> 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
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