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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Graham,

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> 
> >    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 it not helpful to print test results of very outdated versions for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).
> 
> The reason is simply that nobody has scheduled any tests for
> r-bioc-mutationalpatterns in unstable recently.

I fail to understand this.  Before version 3.0.1+dfsg-1 has migrated to
testing tests of this version were done in unstable, right?  Why can I
only see test results of the old version 2.0.0-2 in the column for
unstable?
 
> > I wonder what you think and whether you know a link where I can
> > have a simple access to the most recent test results.
> 
> After dh-r/20210303 was uploaded and built, I scheduled tests for
> r-bioc-affy in unstable, only because it was near the top of the list
> alphabetically.
> 
> https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-affy/
> 
> Based on those successful runs, I have marked dh-r/20210303 urgent and
> it has migrated to testing.

That's great anyway.  Thanks a lot for your support which makes
maintaining R packages way more fun. ;-)
 
Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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