[R-pkg-team] Bug#1041557: r-cran-bookdown breaks r-cran-flextable autopkgtest: `bookmarks` has length 3, not length 0

[Paul Gevers]

Source: r-cran-bookdown, r-cran-flextable
Control: found -1 r-cran-bookdown/0.34+dfsg-1
Control: found -1 r-cran-flextable/0.8.4-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid trixie
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of r-cran-bookdown the autopkgtest of 
r-cran-flextable fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the 
binary packages of r-cran-bookdown from unstable. It passes when run 
with only packages from testing. In tabular form:

                        pass            fail
r-cran-bookdown        from testing    0.34+dfsg-1
r-cran-flextable       from testing    0.8.4-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of r-cran-bookdown 
to testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report 
against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and 
reassign the bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=r-cran-bookdown

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-flextable/35990349/log.gz

  94s BEGIN TEST testthat.R
  94s  94s R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16) -- "Beagle Scouts"
  94s Copyright (C) 2023 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
  94s Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
  94s  94s R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  94s You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
  94s Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
  94s  94s R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
  94s Type 'contributors()' for more information and
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  94s  94s Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
  94s 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
  94s Type 'q()' to quit R.
  94s  94s > library(testthat)
  94s > library(flextable)
  94s > library(officer)
  94s >  94s > test_check("flextable")
107s [ FAIL 1 | WARN 0 | SKIP 5 | PASS 163 ]
107s 107s ══ Skipped tests (5) 
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
108s • On CRAN (5): 'test-as_flextable.R:3:1', 'test-borders.R:3:1',
108s   'test-captions-rmd.R:188:3', 'test-keep-next.R:3:1', 
'test-md-captions.R:3:1'
108s 108s ══ Failed tests 
════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
108s ── Failure ('test-captions-rmd.R:150:3'): with word_document2 
──────────────────
108s `bookmarks` has length 3, not length 0.
108s 108s [ FAIL 1 | WARN 0 | SKIP 5 | PASS 163 ]
108s Error: Test failures
108s Execution halted
108s autopkgtest [11:46:05]: test run-unit-test

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