[R-pkg-devel] DESCRIPTION meta-information, but only for R-devel-Debian-GCC

[Uwe Ligges]

Same from here: I would wait few days if the FAIL status disappears 
(likely just some hicc up on the server during that check) and if it 
persists ask Kurt Hornik who runs the Debian check machine as the rest 
of the CRAN team also does not have any clue about this.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 07.06.2026 22:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 2026-06-07 2:09 p.m., Tony Wilkes wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I see that R package 'tinycodet' v 0.6.2 (this version has been up for 
>> several months now) suddenly has an error, but only for `r-devel- 
>> linux-x86_64-debian-gcc`. The package fails at the check "DESCRIPTION 
>> meta-information". CRAN has not provided any additional information.
>>
>> It's odd that the DESCRIPTION file is considered bad for Debian-gcc, 
>> but not for all other operating systems. If there's a mistake in the 
>> DESCRIPTION file, I'd expect there to be an error for every OS.
>>
>> Link to package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tinycodet
>>
>> I wanted to update my package (update is already on GitHub), but I 
>> need to know why this fail happens before I can update my package.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help/info!
>>
> 
> It's not very unusual to have a failure on only one system, or only a 
> few.  It could be that there's a new test that has been added and it has 
> only been deployed on one R-devel system so far, or the error really 
> does only affect one platform.
> 
> However, the `tinycodet` example you posted does look like there's an 
> issue with the test machine.  It doesn't give complete test results, it 
> appears to have failed during the test:  we see "checking DESCRIPTION 
> meta-information ..." but don't see "OK" or "FAIL", that's the end of 
> the display.
> 
> So I think if you don't see a comment here about the issue in the next 
> day or two, it would be reasonable to write to CRAN to ask what 
> happened, and what you need to do to fix it.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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