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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 May 2024 at 06:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| 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

Also, for what it is worth, installing r-cran-ff and its one dependency in a
container along with r-cran-testthat and its twenty (ick!), and then running
'bash run-unit-test' leads to no issue:

   [ FAIL 0 | WARN 52 | SKIP 0 | PASS 966 ]

Maybe something for the package maintainer to consider.

Dirk

| 
| 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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| dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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