On 10 May 2018 at 11:54, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hi, | | a lot of r-* packages received mails about test suite errors like this: | | On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 02:16:29PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: | > ... | > [2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-summarizedexperiment/testing/amd64/ | | I think the problem is that the packages depend directly or indirectly | from r-cran-dbi version 1.0.0 which is according to tracker[1] available | for architecture all but an older version is available for all | architectures. This ends up in something like | | $ apt-cache policy r-cran-dbi | r-cran-dbi: | Installed: 0.8-1 | Candidate: 0.8-1 | Version table: | *** 0.8-1 501 | 501 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages | 50 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages | 50 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status | | | May be this will "heal" somehow automatically but I wanted to give some | hint about this in case some manual action might be needed.
Sorry about that. It must have been an old packaging oversight that only came to light now -- DBI never had a src/ directory and should have been 'all' all along. Any idea how we can correct that at the repo? Shall we file a bug with release.d.o? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]

