[R-pkg-team] Bug#997699: r-cran-git2r: FTBFS: configure.ac: error: required file 'config.rpath' not found

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: r-cran-git2r
Version: 0.28.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS
Tags: bookworm sid ftbfs
User: lucas at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-20211023 ftbfs-bookworm

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.


Relevant part (hopefully):
> dpkg-buildpackage
> -----------------
> 
> Command: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa -rfakeroot
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package r-cran-git2r
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.28.0-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
>  dpkg-source --before-build .
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
>  debian/rules clean
> dh clean --buildsystem R
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=R
>    dh_autoreconf_clean -O--buildsystem=R
>    dh_clean -O--buildsystem=R
>  dpkg-source -b .
> dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building r-cran-git2r using existing ./r-cran-git2r_0.28.0.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: building r-cran-git2r in r-cran-git2r_0.28.0-1.debian.tar.xz
> dpkg-source: info: building r-cran-git2r in r-cran-git2r_0.28.0-1.dsc
>  debian/rules binary
> dh binary --buildsystem R
>    dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=R
>    dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=R
> configure.ac: error: required file 'config.rpath' not found
> dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> make: *** [debian/rules:4: binary] Error 25


The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2021/10/23/r-cran-git2r_0.28.0-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please marking it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.