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

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Andreas,

On 19-08-2019 21:16, Andreas Tille wrote:
> So the bug was first filed against r-cran-multcomp,

The bug was filed against *both* packages, as I always do when it isn't
totally clear from the failure to which package it belongs.

> reassigned to
> r-cran-dosefinding

by edd, who refuses to look into these kind of issues.

> where the test is OK in sid but the issue is blocking
> the migration.  I admit I neither have any idea how to fix this.

When the test is successful in sid, it suggests that there is a
combination of packages that need to migrate together to bullseye to be
successful. If we want to help r-cran-multcomp migrate, it would be
helpful to know the combination that is needed. Then we can figure out
which package needs to grow which kind of dependency.

> If its rather a matter of the bug severity downgrading it manually could
> enable the migration.  I have no idea whether this is the right course
> of action but otherwise it looks like a deadlock for me.

The migration is *not* blocked by this bug report, so severity doesn't
help. The migration is blocked because the autopkgtest of
r-cran-dosefinding in bullseye fails when run with the binary packages
from multcomp together with a whole set of other packages deemed
necessary (by britney based on package relations) from unstable. And
that is the subject of this report (albeit missing the "in bullseye" part).

As said, I am hoping that without doing anything, things will be all
right in a couple of days. If not, r-base migration will simplify
finding the issue a lot.

Paul

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