[R-pkg-team] Bug#1054323: r-cran-tmb: autopkgtest needs update for new version of rmatrix: Package version inconsistency detected

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Paul,

Am Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 07:23:55PM +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> On 02-11-2023 15:13, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > There is probably one remaining problem.  As per file R/zzz.R[2] the
> > function checkMatrixPackageVersion verifies that TMB is running always
> > with the Matrix version it was built against.
> 
> Well, I suggested before to just patch that check out. Is it really doing
> any good?

Sorry for my weak memory.  I have no idea whether it is really doing any
good.

> If the test suite is remotely well done, it should catch the case
> where rmatrix breaks the package, while enabling running it against any
> version that works.

I might open an Issue about this.
 
> > Do you see some automatic
> > method to approach this which is better than simply waiting for a CI
> > test to fail (which should happen once a r-cran-matrix package of a new
> > Matrix version is uploaded)?
> Well, if you get the version tightly recorded, the migration software will
> refuse to migrate r-cran-matrix because it would break the version in
> testing. No CI is needed for that. But tight version relations are a pain,
> i.e. they limit apt in finding upgrade orders, so if too many packages do
> that, it might prevent people from upgrading their system.

I did not used a tight Depends (see r-cran-matrix (>= $${rmbversion}) in
[1]) but I think the check you suggested to patch out will fire for new
Matrix versions.  Since I understand way to less about the internals I'm
hesitating to patch out something upstream considers necessary without
discussing.

BTW, now we have a new kind of regression[2]

 56s Error: (converted from warning) package ‘TMB’ was built under R version 4.3.2

I have no idea how to fix this from my side.

Kind regards
    Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-tmb/-/blob/master/debian/rules#L10-13
[2] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-tmb/39490349/log.gz

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