[R-pkg-team] Bug#1070840: r-cran-ff: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 May 2024 at 10:54, Graham Inggs wrote:
| Source: r-cran-ff
| Version: 4.0.12+ds-1
| Severity: serious
| X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
| Usertags: regression
| 
| Hi Maintainer
| 
| r-cran-ff's autopkgtest regresses when tested with r-base 4.4.0 [1].
| I've copied what I hope is the relevant part of the log below.

FYI, I am not the maintainer of r-cran-ff.

The package is perfectly clean at CRAN on all hardware-os combinations,
including amd64 so maybe the maintainer needs to turn this test off:

   https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_ff.html

Dirk
 
| Regards
| Graham
| 
| 
| [1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-ff/testing/amd64/
| 
| 
| 42s ══ Failed tests
| ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
| 42s ── Failure ('test-zero_lengths.R:34:3'): file size is correct when
| creating ff integer from scratch ──
| 42s file.exists(f1) is not TRUE
| 42s
| 42s `actual`: FALSE
| 42s `expected`: TRUE
| 42s
| 42s [ FAIL 1 | WARN 52 | SKIP 0 | PASS 965 ]
| 42s Error: Test failures
| 42s Execution halted

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