[R-pkg-team] Bug#1039926: Will file bug report for complete R transition (Was: Bug#1039926: svglite requires rebuild under R 4.3.*)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

Am Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 05:52:34PM -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> This accidentally omitted
> 
>         library(svglite)
> 
> The package loads fine, but like the others will not create a graphics device
> as it was built under the previous R 4.2.* series.

Thanks a lot for your specific bug reports to somehow heal the R
graphics ABI change issue.  I've got the impression there is no good
simple rule to detect the right set of packages that need rebuilt
against r-base 4.3.1 to fix this issue.  I also spotted that vdiffr
needs to be rebuilt to let ggplot2 passing its test suite (and so I
did).

Thus I think it is the best solution to ask the release team for
a full r-base transition (option 2 I suggested in [1]).

BTW, when I was running the autopkgtest of svglite I've spotted an issue
which was solved by Nilesh Patra and reported as #1039955.  I'd like to
make you remind this kind of situation if you might fall back into your
"do not test Debian packages, rather trust CRAN" pattern in future.  We
do not run tests against CRAN code (despite we had spotted mistakes even
there in the past) but we are testing Debian packages which is a
different thing.

I also spotted vdiffr because of the autopkgtest in ggplot2.  It makes
simply sense to test what we are shipping before we ship it to our
users (specifically if we as Debian maintainers like I am are not at
all R experts as I expressed several times).

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2023/06/msg00025.html

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