Do R autopkgtests not respect versioned Deps?

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@nileshpatra.info>]

Hi,

I uploaded a "probable" fix for r-cran-tmb autopkgtest yesterday. The problem was that britney was taking the
version of r-cran-tmb from testing (as expected) which is 1.3-2 and the one needed is 1.3-4.
I did a patch which sets this, and confirmed the same as follows:

$ apt show ./r-cran-tmb_1.7.21-2_amd64.deb | grep 'r-cran-matrix'

Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.1.1-2), r-api-4.0, r-cran-matrix (>= 1.3-4), r-cran-rcppeigen, libblas3 | libblas.so.3, libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.2.1), liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)

However, despite this versioned dep, the autopkgtest on debci pulls 1.3-2 of rmatrix, see here[1]. I also do not see
anything versioned either.
Why is this happening?

[1]: https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-tmb/15362214/log.gz

Cheers,

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