On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 03:50:46PM +0000, James Clarke wrote: > I did this two weeks ago, but it turns out one of the failures (run/switches.t) > is important, as it reveals that `perl -pi -e ... /tmp/foo` is broken, which in > turn causes r-base-core's postinst to fail. I've tracked this down and sent a > patch upstream[1]; could you please apply this to the packaging? Thanks! Applied in 5.28.0-4 (just uploaded.) -- Niko