On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:33:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:54:49AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > This is due to: > > /usr/lib/R/site-library/av/samples/Synapsis-Wonderland.mp3: broken symbolic > > link to ../../../../../share/doc/libmp3-tag-perl/examples/empty_10sec.mp3 > > > > The test passes after installing libmp3-tag-perl, but shipping > > a broken link created in debian/rules is wrong in any case. > > Arrg, sure this is wrong - I intended to make r-cran-av > Depends: libmp3-tag-perl > > > And depending on libmp3-tag-perl does not make sense for that. > > I agree it does not make much sense, yes. But that package is quite > cheap.
It is cheap only if perl is already installed, and a weird runtime dependency. > > I would suggest to remove the override_dh_link, add test > > dependency on libmp3-tag-perl and then copy the file from > > libmp3-tag-perl at the start of the test. > > I agree but the file is expected under /usr/lib where I can not copy > anything. To avoid patching and spending additional time on an issue > that will be possibly resolved with next upstream version I'd prefer to > simply add the missing Depends. Would you agree with this? What about disabling autopkgtest until this is resolved? > Kind regards and thanks for spotting > > Andreas. cu Adrian