[R-pkg-team] Bug#920711: Test suite seems to uncover conflict between new version of tibble and repr (Was: Bug#920711: r-cran-repr: autopkgtest regression)

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 help

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 10:56:11PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 22:34, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> > I can also add r-cran-tibble via
> >
> >     apt-get install --no-install-recommends r-cran-tibble
> >
> > and the test suite keeps on succeeding!  However, after intalling
> > r-cran-dplyr the described error occures while after deinstalling
> > r-cran-dplyr the test suite passes again.  So the incompatibility
> > seems to be rather between r-cran-repr and r-cran-dplyr.
> 
> The reason the two tests only fail when r-cran-dplyr is installed is because of:
>     if (has_dplyr) { }
> in both cases [1][2].

But this does not explain why r-cran-repr fails after a new
r-cran-tibble is uploaded.  It remains a bit mysterious to me.  So I'm
tagging this bug "help" but I hesitate for tags upstream or a forwarded
field since I'm not sure what upstream to contact about this.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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