Hi[Just in case you didn't know: submitters of bugs in the BTS are not copied on replies, so I only saw your message because I went to the bug myself]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 20:58:39 +0530 Nilesh Patra <nil...@debian.org> wrote:
This needs fixing in two stages. The error is: | 38s TMB was built with Matrix version 1.5.4.1 | 38s Current Matrix version is 1.5.3 So rmatrix's new version needs to go to testing, which is currently 1.6.0. So 1. rmatrix 1.6.0 needs to go to testing 2. tmb needs to be rebuilt against rmatrix 1.6.0
What I don't like about this phrasing is that it doesn't discuss why tmb needs rebuilding and why that's not correctly embedded in the package relations to begin with. The message you quote above is only a warning, so it's not the full story as apparently it's normally OK to have the skew (as I would expect). I wonder, does rebuilding just work? I recall I saw that tmb had a new upstream release with only three changes where one was to be compatible with the new rmatrix [1]. With rebuilding, would the right relation of tmb towards rmatrix be embedded in the package relations (otherwise r-cran-tmb can migrate to testing before rmatrix does, I don't know if that would be a problem).
rmatrix can't migrate to testing before either tmb is fixed (by a rebuild but see above or otherwise) or tmb is removed from testing.
If it's clear that rebuilding is the right (Debian) solution (and not papering over issues that should be solved), then I can schedule the rebuilds. But I'm not convinced yet.
Paul [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TMB/NEWS
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