[R-pkg-team] Bug#1071523: r-cran-spatstat.geom: autopkgtest regression in testing

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Andreas

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 05:18, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> Well, sure.  But our tooling will add this for the next upstream version
> again and if the problem is not solved otherwise it will re-appear.  I
> will upload this change but I would prefer understanding the issue and
> provide a real fix.

Looking at the riscv64 results for r-cran-spatstat.geom [1], which
were passing because r-cran-spatstat.core was not available there, it
seems that the autopkgtest-pkg-r test consists only of an attempt to
load the library:

# Try to load package
echo "Test: Try to load the R library ${pkgname}"
R --no-save -e "library('${pkgname}')"

Being a superficial test, I think this causes far more problems than
it is actually worth, and I suggest to disable it until a fix for
#961138 is found.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-spatstat.geom/testing/riscv64/