[Rd] bug report for make check

[Tomas Kalibera]

We've fixed the test to allow the current behavior of all.equal.POSIXt 
for now. It became clear that figuring out how to best improve 
all.equal.POSIXt would take much longer.

Best
Tomas

On 10/30/20 12:00 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> Thanks, I'm going to shut up then.
>
> Despite having been reported multiple times, it was not at all clear 
> to me that this was being worked on with the intention of addressing 
> make check - that is one of the limitations of the communication 
> system we use.
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:38 AM Tomas Kalibera 
> <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com <mailto:tomas.kalibera using gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Kasper,
>
>     if you want to submit a bug via bugzilla, please first read
>
>     https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html
>
>     and you will learn there that there is an email address to use when
>     asking for an account, not all R-devel mailing list readers need
>     to read
>     that.
>
>     Moreover, I can see you already have an account in R bugzilla.
>
>     Moreover, bugs can be reported also on R-devel mailing list and
>     this has
>     been reported already several times, we are working on it, it is not
>     clear what is the right way to fix this.
>
>     Thanks for your patience,
>     Tomas
>
>     On 10/30/20 11:24 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>     > I would like to request access to bugzilla to file a bug report
>     on make
>     > check for R-devel.
>     >
>     > Following changes to all.equal.POSIXt,
>     >    make check
>     > now reports an error if the environment variable TZ is set to
>     >    TZ="US/Eastern"
>     > (and likely other values). This can be addressed by using the
>     argument
>     > check.tzone=FALSE in the call to all.equal.POSIXt in
>     reg-tests-2.R. A patch
>     > has been posted by Sebastian Meyer in the R-devel thread
>     "timezone tests
>     > and R-devel".
>     >
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best,
> Kasper



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