[R-pkg-team] Bug#1072661: r-cran-popepi: Please update to current version

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Source: r-cran-popepi
Version: 0.4.11+dfsg-1

This package is holding CRAN package 'survival' (aka r-cran-survival, a
package listed as part of the 'recommended' set by R Core and hence in
r-recommended) back from migrating and is now threatening removal. See
#1072648 for details.

And that is of course ridiculous. The package has been in Debian for 20 years
and is in perfect standing.  As it is at CRAN.  Consider:

- package survival is in _perfect_ condition at CRAN, see
  https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_survival.html

- package popEpi is in _perfect_ condition at CRAN, see
  https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_popEpi.html

- But it is at version 0.4.12 (one release ahead) and its changelog / news
  https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/popEpi/news/news.html
  says

    News for version 0.4.12
    Unit tests
    No changes in the package itself — fixed a unit test that used the output of survival::summmary.survfit which had improved slightly in 3.6-4.

suggesting that you may get your autopkgtest failure fixed for free if you
update.  Please consider doing so, and the sooner the better.

I remain underimpressed by autopkgtest scatter for healthly packages (where
current, ie CRAN) that are left behind upstream. 

Dirk

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