[R-pkg-team] Bug#924514: multcomp breaks r-cran-dosefinding autopkgtest

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 March 2019 at 11:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Control: forwarded -1 Bjoern Bornkamp <bbnkmp at gmail.com>
| 
| (@Bjoern: For the full issue please read
|            https://bugs.debian.org/924514
|  which is probably more relevant for DoseFinding debugging
|  than the Debian specific things below. )
| 
| Hi,
| 
| On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 03:58:14PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > On 13 March 2019 at 21:39, Paul Gevers wrote:
| > | Source: multcomp, r-cran-dosefinding
| > | Control: found -1 multcomp/1.4-10-1
| > | Control: found -1 r-cran-dosefinding/0.9-16-2
| > | Severity: important
| > | X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
| > | User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
| > | Usertags: breaks needs-update
| > | 
| > | Dear maintainers,
| > | 
| > | With a recent upload of multcomp the autopkgtest of r-cran-dosefinding
| > | fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages
| > | of multcomp from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from
| > | testing. In tabular form:
| > |                        pass            fail
| > | multcomp               from testing    1.4-10-1
| > | r-cran-dosefinding     from testing    0.9-16-2
| > | versioned deps [0]     from testing    from unstable
| > | all others             from testing    from testing
| > 
| > No issue at CRAN for multcomp:
| > 
| >    https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_multcomp.html
| > 
| > So this is likely self-inflicted at Debian.
| 
| @Dirk: Could you please be more verbose in how far that link is a sign
| that DoseFinding 0.9-16 works with multcomp 1.4-10.  

It is a table of checks across architectures and R version. None shows an issue.

CRAN run reverse-depends on all package updates prior to admitting to CRAN.

multcomp being on CRAN means there was no issue with its reverse depends.

CRAN may not check Suggests.  I argued for years we should not either.

If it breaks in Suggests, you "get to keep the pieces".  I do not have the
time to investigate what I consider to be a non-problems. Happy to help, but
this is self-inflicted.

Truly sorry,  Dirk




| @Paul: I think its not really relevant for Buster release since multcomp
| will not migrate due to freeze so for the moment I will not do anthing
| for the moment (may be after Buster release DoseFinding maintainers at
| CRAN found a solution - otherwise we need to do something about this).
| 
| > Also, DoseFinding only _Suggests:_ multcomp
| > 
| >    https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/DoseFinding/index.html
| 
| That's correct.  But due to the use in the autopkgtest and the test
| script is provided in the doc directory as example for users dh-r
| upgrades those Suggests to Recommends[1].
| 
| Kind regards
| 
|        Andreas.
| 
| [1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/blob/master/dh/R.pm#L192
| 
| 
| 
| | I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Unfortunately,
| | there is no error reported, but successful runs have more output.
| | 
| | Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against both
| | packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the bug
| | to the right package? If needed, please change the bug's severity.
| | 
| | More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
| | https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
| | 
| | Paul
| | 
| | [0] You can see what packages were added from the second line of the log
| | file quoted below. The migration software adds source package from
| | unstable to the list if they are needed to install packages from
| | multcomp/1.4-10-1. I.e. due to versioned dependencies or breaks/conflicts.
| | 
| | https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-dosefinding/2099783/log.gz
| | 
| | autopkgtest [23:10:49]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------
| | testgFit.R passed
| | testplanMod.R passed
| | testsDesign.R passed
| | testsFitting.R passed
| | testsMCPMod.R passed
| | autopkgtest [23:10:55]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
| | 
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