[R-pkg-team] Bug#1129460: r-cran-devtools: debaudit/git2dsc regression in 2.4.6-1: 700 - generated dsc differs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: r-cran-devtools
Version: 2.4.6-1
Severity: minor
User: lucas at debian.org
Usertags: debaudit

Hi,

While working on https://debaudit.debian.net/, I ran into an issue with
r-cran-devtools/2.4.6-1, which is currently in unstable and trying to migrate to
forky.

debaudit detects the following issue in unstable:
> 700 - generated dsc differs
The package built from Git is not identical to the one in Debian.

You can find more details at:
https://debaudit.debian.net/git2dsc/result/8a207400e14127f3f6c1526800372dfa80ca72d6136ee4b22c12db82c0090ad6

The differences look important.

The version in forky (2.4.5-1) tested fine, with the following diagnostic:
> 910 - git-generated dsc identical to archive dsc after normalization
You can find its result at: https://debaudit.debian.net/git2dsc/result/626ca63d26925da653baf9f3237a90a0848d8a53b59bda39220fd2fb29c1666d

Since Debaudit is in heavy development, I am very interested in hearing if the
issue was misdetected somehow.

Thanks,

Lucas Nussbaum