Re: Bug#1000339: r-cran-raster breaks r-cran-satellite autopkgtest: unable to find an inherited method for function 'extend'

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Robert,

Am Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 08:32:46PM -0800 schrieb Robert J. Hijmans:
> I do not know what "the R upstream way" means.

I mean that on CRAN all R packages are usually tested in different setups
and it happened before that those tests are passing while we observed some
issues in the Debian setup.

> The only way that I can
> imagine this would happen is if you install the current version raster with
> an older version of terra. You can do that because the raster package does
> not specify the version of terra it needs. At installation, the namespace
> for the raster package is fixed. If you then install the current version of
> terra, there is a namespace conflict, and the raster package should be
> reinstalled. I will send a new version of raster, that specifies the
> version of terra it needs, to CRAN tomorrow.  Perhaps that will help.

We can try so even if the Debian setup ensures the minimum version of
terra you specified.  Just ping here if there is a new version and we
will try.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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