[R-pkg-team] Bug#1071355: In how far are several packages affected by bug #1071355 of maptools

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 07:56:40AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> there was a series of testing removals due to bug #1071355 of
> r-cran-maptools.  Since maptools was removed from CRAN[1] we intend to
> remove this package.  However, before doing so I would like to
> understand why packages like r-cran-factominer, r-cran-ggpubr,
> r-cran-vim, r-cran-systemfit, r-cran-survminer and others where I can't
> see any connection to r-cran-maptools were removed from testing.

I _think_ it's something like this:

r-cran-ggpubr depends r-cran-rstatix depends r-cran-car depends r-cran-maptools .
Therefore a #1071355 in r-cran-maptools which is serious and tagged ftbfs
causes r-cran-ggpubr to get removed.

Bye,

Joost

PS: tnx "apt-rdepends r-cran-ggpubr"