Package: autodep8 Version: 0.16 Severity: normal The autodep8 generator for pkg-r-autopkgtest uses APT lists to determine which R packages from DESCRIPTION exist in Debian. autodep8 is run outside the test runner, not inside it, so this makes the behaviour dependant on the packages available to the test runner host.
Here's the code that introduced this approach: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autodep8/-/merge_requests/10 It all works when the autopkgtest runner has approximately the same packages available as the release under test, but that's not always the case. I noticed that the r-bioc-hdf5 package's test misses a dependency on r-cranc-bit64 when the test is run from an older stable release that predates this package. I don't know how else you can solve this particular problem, though... SR