[R-pkg-team] Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: src:r-cran-admisc: fails to migrate to testing for too long

[Charles Plessy]

Hi Paul

> Le Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 11:39:33AM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit :
> > 
> > PS: note that the migration failure of r-cran-av is one of the reasons
> > why the ffmpeg transition isn't done yet.

Le Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 10:12:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> 
> I am really sorry for the trouble r-cran-av causes, but I do not have
> the tools to see it happening.  As of now the tracker page of the
> package does not mention that it is involved in a transition.

I looked at the ffmpeg tracker page and I see that it has the same version in
unstable and it only mentions automatic transitions in which r-cran-av is not
listed.  Where can I track the nuisance of r-cran-av on transitions?

> I tried to compute the reverse-dependency graph of r-cran-av but it
> seems that there are circular dependencies between the package imports
> (represented by Debian Depends) and the package regression tests
> (represented by Debian Recommmends because we can not distinguish
> between true Recommends and debian/test/control dependencies), is
> is 10pm and I will not be able to open a RM bug today…

I fixed the code to handle circular dependencies and computed that r-cran-av's
dependency graph including Recommends is 819 R packages.

https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/maintenance-utilities/-/blob/01f5485c6aff6ecfbf916859db451024fe1c228e/rdeps.R

Interestingly no package directly depends on r-cran-av.  If it is useful to
file a RM bug on r-cran-av's removed architecture please let me know.
Otherwise, we will have to wait because I think that the 819 other packages are
not ready yet.

At the moment I am still doing the architecture restrictions by hand on
packages having new upstream releases.  Once it is done, I will do it with
automated source uploads on the other packages.

Have a nice day,

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