[R-pkg-team] Bug#1035428: Test suite issues due to new upstream version of r-core in unstable (Was: r-cran-shiny: broken symlink: ...)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

when fixing bug #1035428 I realised test suite issues with

  r-cran-thematic [1]
   -> Error in `svglite_(filename, bg, width, height, pointsize, standalone, 
      always_valid)`: Graphics API version mismatch

  r-cran-treescape [2]
  r-cran-treespace [3]
   -> error is given if lambda is outside of [0,1] ---
      `medTree(trees, -1)` did not throw an error.

As far as I can guess at least the first type of error (Graphics API
version mismatch) is caused by the fact that a new upstream version of
r-base (4.3.0-1) was uploaded to unstable (changelog[4] says to
experimental so it seems by accident).

I wonder what might be the most sensible strategy to fix this.  Since
an epoch is considered ugly I've seen some kind of
    4.3.0+really+4.2.2.20221110
version number.  However, in case of R it might not be the best idea
to use this kind of fake version in a stable release.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-thematic/33619891/log.gz
[2] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-treescape/33619892/log.gz
[3] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-treespace/33619893/log.gz
[4] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1429562/accepted-r-base-430-1-source-into-unstable/

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