[R-pkg-team] Bug#1076917: r-cran-statcheck: FTBFS: ERROR: dependency ‘stringi’ is not available for package ‘statcheck’

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:r-cran-statcheck
Version: 1.5.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build:

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  debian/rules binary
dh binary --buildsystem R
    dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_auto_build -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_auto_test -O--buildsystem=R
    create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
    dh_testroot -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_prep -O--buildsystem=R
    dh_auto_install --destdir=debian/r-cran-statcheck/ -O--buildsystem=R
I: R Package: statcheck Version: 1.5.0
I: Building using R version 4.4.1-1
I: R API version: r-api-4.0
I: Using built-time from d/changelog: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:42:09 +0100
	mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-statcheck/usr/lib/R/site-library
	R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-statcheck/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:42:09 +0100'"
ERROR: dependency ‘stringi’ is not available for package ‘statcheck’
* removing ‘/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-statcheck/usr/lib/R/site-library/statcheck’
dh_auto_install: error: R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-statcheck/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:42:09 +0100'" returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:4: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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The above is just how the build ends and not necessarily the most relevant part.
If required, the full build log is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202407/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines
of type m6a.large and r6a.large from AWS, using sbuild and a
reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you could not reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and affects, so that this is still visible in the BTS web
page for this package.

Thanks.