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

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Andreas

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 16:57, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> 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?

No, the tests that britney schedules for migration are run in testing,
and usually only the package to be tested comes from unstable.  The
idea is to simulate what would break in testing, if this package from
unstable were allowed to migrate.

If there are breaks and versioned dependencies, britney will try to
satisfy these with additional packages from unstable.

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

You are welcome!

Regards
Graham