On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:56 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > This shoots the messenger. That is a bug in the vectors package, not in R > 4.3.0 (or now R 4.3.1).
I encourage you to change the severity of this bug back to Serious. r-base will not migrate from Unstable to Testing until the triggered autopkgtests are all passing. That makes this de facto a Release Critical issue regardless of whether a Serious bug is filed or not. However, a Serious bug will show up at both https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/r-base and https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html#r-base which allows others to easily see an explanation of the issue and the status of fixing it. The autopkgtest failures do indicate that there is a dependency issue that could be resolved through either stricter dependency relationships in the packages or by implementing the virtual API package you mentioned on the mailing list and rebuilding affected packages when the API changes. I understand that you don't consider this temporary incompatibility to be a high priority issue but the autopkgtest system allows for this to be detected so that things run smoothly for those people who choose to use these packages on Debian Testing. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
