[R-pkg-team] Bug#1071667: r-cran-bbmle: autopkgtest regression on ppc64el

[Graham Inggs]

Source: r-cran-bbmle
Version: 1.0.25.1-1
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: regression

Hi Maintainer

Sometime around 2024-04-18, r-cran-bbmle's autopkgtest regressed in
testing on ppc64el [1].  I've copied what I hope is the relevant part
of a recent log below.

This appears only to be a warning, it would be good if this could be
filtered out somehow.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-bbmle/testing/ppc64el/


72s --- profbound.Rout.save_ 2024-05-23 12:58:07.420821085 +0000
72s +++ profbound.Rout_ 2024-05-23 12:58:07.424820960 +0000
72s @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
72s + method="L-BFGS-B")
72s >
72s > pp <- profile(fit2,prof.lower=-0.2)
72s +Warning message:
72s +In mle2(minuslogl = function (a = NULL, b = NULL) :
72s + convergence failure: code=52 (ERROR: ABNORMAL_TERMINATION_IN_LNSRCH)
72s > stopifnot(min(subset(as.data.frame(pp),param=="b")$par.vals.b)==-0.2)
72s > ## note that b does go below -0.2 when profiling a ...
72s > options(old_opt)
72s autopkgtest [12:58:07]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
72s run-unit-test FAIL non-zero exit status 1