[R-pkg-team] Bug#1064922: src:r-cran-gbm: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

[Charles Plessy]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:39:44 +0100 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> 
wrote:> Control: tags -1 upstream
 > Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/gbm-developers/gbm/issues/78
 > Control: reopen -1
 > thanks
 >
 > I have forwarded this bug upstream.  I've also re-opened the bug to make
 > sure it appears on our list of bugs.

Hi all,

I do not have an exciting solution to offer to solve this bug, but I 
note that version 2.1.8.1 seems to build and pass the autpkgtests fine 
with R 4.5.0 on my amd64 system.

2.1.8.1 is the last version that passed on arm64 and the like.  It is 
the last version that was in testing before being (ironically) removed 
because of the failure of 2.2.2-1.

How about I upload a version debian/2.2.2-2really2.1.8.1 and hope that 
it can close the bug?  We can even go for an epoch; as noted by Andreas, 
the development of this package has ended and upstream is asking users 
to migrate.  I would not be surprised if it is removed from CRAN in the 
next few years.

Have a nice day,

Charles

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