[R-pkg-team] Bug#1098621: r-cran-sparr: FTBFS: ERROR: dependency 'spatstat.univar' is not available for package 'sparr'

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:r-cran-sparr
Version: 2.3-15-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs trixie sid

Dear maintainer:

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

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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh clean --buildsystem R
   dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_autoreconf_clean -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_clean -O--buildsystem=R
 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-sparr/ -O--buildsystem=R
I: R Package: sparr Version: 2.3-15
I: Building using R version 4.4.2-1
I: R API version: r-api-4.0
I: Using built-time from d/changelog: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:13:53 +0900
	mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-sparr/usr/lib/R/site-library
	R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-sparr/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:13:53 +0900'"
ERROR: dependency ‘spatstat.univar’ is not available for package ‘sparr’
* removing ‘/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-sparr/usr/lib/R/site-library/sparr’
dh_auto_install: error: R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-sparr/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:13:53 +0900'" 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/202502/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines 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 add an affects on src:r-cran-sparr, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.