Package unable to install with "malformed DESCRIPTION" error

[zkamvar]

Possibly related to r-lib/pak#632 and r-lib/pak#767

From hubverse-org/hubValidations#235, we were getting an error in the r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2 action. I was able to reproduce it with {pak} by installing from source, which lead me to find that it's coming from a {desc} call, but I have been unable to reproduce that.

The previous runs were working five days ago and none of our packages have updated since mid-March.

FWIW, here is the specific run failure:

Details

  ℹ Installing lockfile '.github/pkg.lock'
   
  → Will install 93 packages.
  → Will download 4 CRAN packages (1.61 MB).
  → Will download 89 packages with unknown size.
  + arrow            19.0.1.1 [dl] + cmake, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libssl-dev
  + askpass          1.2.1    [dl]
  + assertthat       0.2.1    [dl]
  + backports        1.5.0    [dl]
  + base64enc        0.1-3    [dl]
  + base64url        1.4      [dl]
  + bigD             0.3.1    [dl]
  + bit              4.6.0    [dl]
  + bit64            4.6.0-1  [dl]
  + bitops           1.0-9    [dl]
  + bslib            0.9.0    [dl]
  + cachem           1.1.0    [dl]
  + checkmate        2.3.2    [dl]
  + cli              3.6.5    [dl]
  + clipr            0.8.0    [dl] + libx11-dev
  + commonmark       1.9.5    [dl]
  + config           0.3.2    [dl]
  + crayon           1.5.3    [dl]
  + curl             6.2.2    [dl] + libcurl4-openssl-dev, libssl-dev
  + data.table       1.17.0   [dl]
  + digest           0.6.37   [dl]
  + dplyr            1.1.4    [dl]
  + evaluate         1.0.3    [dl]
  + fansi            1.0.6    [dl]
  + farver           2.1.2    [dl]
  + fastmap          1.2.0    [dl]
  + fontawesome      0.5.3    [dl]
  + fs               1.6.6    [dl] + make
  + generics         0.1.3    [dl]
  + gh               1.4.1    [dl]
  + gitcreds         0.1.2    [dl] + git
  + glue             1.8.0    [dl]
  + gt               1.0.0    [dl]
  + highr            0.11     [dl]
  + hms              1.1.3    [dl]
  + htmltools        0.5.8.1  [dl]
  + htmlwidgets      1.6.4    [dl]
  + httr             1.4.7    [dl]
  + httr2            1.1.2    [dl]
  + hubAdmin         1.6.0    [bld][dl] (345.56 kB)
  + hubData          1.3.0    [bld][dl] (270.47 kB)
  + hubUtils         0.5.0    [bld][dl] (376.11 kB)
  + hubValidations   0.11.0   [bld][dl] (620.40 kB)
  + ini              0.3.1    [dl]
  + jquerylib        0.1.4    [dl]
  + jsonlite         2.0.0    [dl]
  + jsonvalidate     1.5.0    [dl]
  + juicyjuice       0.1.0    [dl]
  + knitr            1.50     [dl] + pandoc
  + labeling         0.4.3    [dl]
  + lifecycle        1.0.4    [dl]
  + litedown         0.7      [dl]
  + lubridate        1.9.4    [dl]
  + magrittr         2.0.3    [dl]
  + markdown         2.0      [dl]
  + memoise          2.0.1    [dl]
  + mime             0.13     [dl]
  + MMWRweek         0.1.3    [dl]
  + openssl          2.3.2    [dl] + libssl-dev
  + pillar           1.10.2   [dl]
  + pkgconfig        2.0.3    [dl]
  + purrr            1.0.4    [dl]
  + R6               2.6.1    [dl]
  + rappdirs         0.3.3    [dl]
  + RColorBrewer     1.1-3    [dl]
  + Rcpp             1.0.14   [dl]
  + reactable        0.4.4    [dl]
  + reactR           0.6.1    [dl]
  + readr            2.1.5    [dl]
  + rlang            1.1.6    [dl]
  + rmarkdown        2.29     [dl] + pandoc
  + sass             0.4.10   [dl] + make
  + scales           1.4.0    [dl]
  + sessioninfo      1.2.3    [dl]
  + stringi          1.8.7    [dl] + libicu-dev
  + stringr          1.5.1    [dl]
  + sys              3.4.3    [dl]
  + tibble           3.2.1    [dl]
  + tidyselect       1.2.1    [dl]
  + timechange       0.3.0    [dl]
  + tinytex          0.57     [dl]
  + tzdb             0.5.0    [dl]
  + utf8             1.2.5    [dl]
  + V8               6.0.3    [dl] + libnode-dev
  + vctrs            0.6.5    [dl]
  + viridisLite      0.4.2    [dl]
  + vroom            1.6.5    [dl]
  + whisker          0.4.1    [dl]
  + withr            3.0.2    [dl]
  + xfun             0.52     [dl]
  + xml2             1.3.8    [dl] + libxml2-dev
  + yaml             2.3.10   [dl]
  + zoltr            1.0.2    [dl]
  → Will install 10 system packages:
  * cmake                 - arrow               
  * git                   - gitcreds            
  * libcurl4-openssl-dev  - arrow, curl         
  * libicu-dev            - stringi             
  * libnode-dev           - V8                  
  * libssl-dev            - arrow, curl, openssl
  * libx11-dev            - clipr               
  * libxml2-dev           - xml2                
  * make                  - fs, sass            
  * pandoc                - knitr, rmarkdown    
  ℹ Getting 4 pkgs (1.61 MB) and 89 pkgs with unknown sizes
  ✔ Got base64enc 0.1-3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (26.60 kB)
  ✔ Got assertthat 0.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (53.52 kB)
  ✔ Got askpass 1.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (21.97 kB)
  ✔ Got pkgconfig 2.0.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (18.18 kB)
  ✔ Got backports 1.5.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (115.31 kB)
  ✔ Got base64url 1.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (24.51 kB)
  ✔ Got tinytex 0.57 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (143.76 kB)
  ✔ Got timechange 0.3.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (170.52 kB)
  ✔ Got RColorBrewer 1.1-3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (51.98 kB)
  ✔ Got sessioninfo 1.2.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (195.85 kB)
  ✔ Got litedown 0.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (371.34 kB)
  ✔ Got gitcreds 0.1.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (97.25 kB)
  ✔ Got httr 1.4.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (487.12 kB)
  ✔ Got pillar 1.10.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (659.72 kB)
  ✔ Got hms 1.1.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (100.15 kB)
  ✔ Got hubData 1.3.0 (source) (270.47 kB)
  ✔ Got hubAdmin 1.6.0 (source) (345.56 kB)
  ✔ Got hubUtils 0.5.0 (source) (376.11 kB)
  ✔ Got openssl 2.3.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.31 MB)
  ✔ Got httr2 1.1.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (726.49 kB)
  ✔ Got memoise 2.0.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (48.81 kB)
  ✔ Got hubValidations 0.11.0 (source) (620.40 kB)
  ✔ Got htmlwidgets 1.6.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (815.39 kB)
  ✔ Got knitr 1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.10 MB)
  ✔ Got reactR 0.6.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (611.43 kB)
  ✔ Got tzdb 0.5.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (663.56 kB)
  ✔ Got commonmark 1.9.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (147.45 kB)
  ✔ Got bit 4.6.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (630.82 kB)
  ✔ Got Rcpp 1.0.14 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (2.17 MB)
  ✔ Got clipr 0.8.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (51.28 kB)
  ✔ Got vroom 1.6.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (947.31 kB)
  ✔ Got checkmate 2.3.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (743.77 kB)
  ✔ Got generics 0.1.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (82.76 kB)
  ✔ Got farver 2.1.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.47 MB)
  ✔ Got fontawesome 0.5.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.40 MB)
  ✔ Got gh 1.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (119.33 kB)
  ✔ Got glue 1.8.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (168.33 kB)
  ✔ Got dplyr 1.1.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.50 MB)
  ✔ Got MMWRweek 0.1.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (28.77 kB)
  ✔ Got htmltools 0.5.8.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (355.33 kB)
  ✔ Got lifecycle 1.0.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (125.10 kB)
  ✔ Got markdown 2.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (64.32 kB)
  ✔ Got jsonlite 2.0.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.09 MB)
  ✔ Got juicyjuice 0.1.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.13 MB)
  ✔ Got readr 2.1.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (861.59 kB)
  ✔ Got stringr 1.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (311.01 kB)
  ✔ Got R6 2.6.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (86.92 kB)
  ✔ Got gt 1.0.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (6.09 MB)
  ✔ Got withr 3.0.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (223.89 kB)
  ✔ Got rmarkdown 2.29 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (2.64 MB)
  ✔ Got xml2 1.3.8 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (281.80 kB)
  ✔ Got tibble 3.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (678.87 kB)
  ✔ Got yaml 2.3.10 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (115.34 kB)
  ✔ Got sass 0.4.10 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (2.42 MB)
  ✔ Got viridisLite 0.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.30 MB)
  ✔ Got bigD 0.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.17 MB)
  ✔ Got vctrs 0.6.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.32 MB)
  ✔ Got crayon 1.5.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (163.96 kB)
  ✔ Got stringi 1.8.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (3.30 MB)
  ✔ Got fastmap 1.2.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (63.25 kB)
  ✔ Got curl 6.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (782.68 kB)
  ✔ Got ini 0.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (13.45 kB)
  ✔ Got evaluate 1.0.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (101.55 kB)
  ✔ Got jquerylib 0.1.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (526.89 kB)
  ✔ Got magrittr 2.0.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (223.88 kB)
  ✔ Got jsonvalidate 1.5.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (177.71 kB)
  ✔ Got cli 3.6.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.33 MB)
  ✔ Got rappdirs 0.3.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (45.34 kB)
  ✔ Got V8 6.0.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (10.92 MB)
  ✔ Got tidyselect 1.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (225.47 kB)
  ✔ Got scales 1.4.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (841.75 kB)
  ✔ Got reactable 0.4.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.06 MB)
  ✔ Got utf8 1.2.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (151.61 kB)
  ✔ Got xfun 0.52 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (593.17 kB)
  ✔ Got digest 0.6.37 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (222.88 kB)
  ✔ Got mime 0.13 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (44.60 kB)
  ✔ Got bit64 4.6.0-1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (492.57 kB)
  ✔ Got fansi 1.0.6 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (317.39 kB)
  ✔ Got sys 3.4.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (40.82 kB)
  ✔ Got config 0.3.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (102.91 kB)
  ✔ Got purrr 1.0.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (537.35 kB)
  ✔ Got cachem 1.1.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (67.56 kB)
  ✔ Got highr 0.11 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (37.67 kB)
  ✔ Got labeling 0.4.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (60.96 kB)
  ✔ Got lubridate 1.9.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (993.18 kB)
  ✔ Got fs 1.6.6 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (310.10 kB)
  ✔ Got zoltr 1.0.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (155.40 kB)
  ✔ Got whisker 0.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (67.17 kB)
  ✔ Got bitops 1.0-9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (26.02 kB)
  ✔ Got data.table 1.17.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (2.69 MB)
  ✔ Got rlang 1.1.6 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (1.60 MB)
  ✔ Got bslib 0.9.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (5.67 MB)
  ✔ Got arrow 19.0.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04) (20.83 MB)
  ℹ Installing system requirements
  ℹ Executing `sudo sh -c apt-get -y update`
  Get:1 file:/etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt Mirrorlist [144 B]
  Hit:2 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
  Hit:3 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
  Hit:4 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
  Hit:5 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
  Hit:6 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli jammy InRelease
  Hit:7 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/22.04/prod jammy InRelease
  Reading package lists...
  ℹ Executing `sudo sh -c apt-get -y install cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev make git pandoc libicu-dev libnode-dev libxml2-dev`
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  libicu-dev is already the newest version (70.1-2).
  libicu-dev set to manually installed.
  make is already the newest version (4.3-4.1build1).
  libssl-dev is already the newest version (3.0.2-0ubuntu1.19).
  libx11-dev is already the newest version (2:1.7.5-1ubuntu0.3).
  libx11-dev set to manually installed.
  libxml2-dev is already the newest version (2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.7).
  libxml2-dev set to manually installed.
  git is already the newest version (1:2.49.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.04.1).
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    cmake-data dh-elpa-helper libcmark-gfm-extensions0.29.0.gfm.3
  libcmark-gfm0.29.0.gfm.3 libjsoncpp25 libnode72 librhash0 libuv1-dev
    pandoc-data
  Suggested packages:
    cmake-doc ninja-build cmake-format libcurl4-doc libidn11-dev libkrb5-dev
    libldap2-dev librtmp-dev libssh2-1-dev texlive-latex-recommended
    texlive-xetex texlive-luatex pandoc-citeproc texlive-latex-extra context
    wkhtmltopdf librsvg2-bin groff ghc nodejs python libjs-mathjax libjs-katex
    citation-style-language-styles
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    cmake cmake-data dh-elpa-helper libcmark-gfm-extensions0.29.0.gfm.3
    libcmark-gfm0.29.0.gfm.3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp25 libnode-dev
  libnode72 librhash0 libuv1-dev pandoc pandoc-data
  0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
  Need to get 39.6 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 238 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 file:/etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt Mirrorlist [144 B]
  Get:2 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libjsoncpp25 amd64 1.9.5-3 [80.0 kB]
  Get:3 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 librhash0 amd64 1.4.2-1ubuntu1 [125 kB]
  Get:4 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 dh-elpa-helper all 2.0.9ubuntu1 [7610 B]
  Get:5 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 cmake-data all 3.22.1-1ubuntu1.22.04.2 [1913 kB]
  Get:6 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 cmake amd64 3.22.1-1ubuntu1.22.04.2 [5010 kB]
  Get:7 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 libcmark-gfm0.29.0.gfm.3 amd64 0.29.0.gfm.3-3 [115 kB]
  Get:8 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 libcmark-gfm-extensions0.29.0.gfm.3 amd64 0.29.0.gfm.3-3 [25.1 kB]
  Get:9 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libcurl4-openssl-dev amd64 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.20 [386 kB]
  Get:10 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libuv1-dev amd64 1.43.0-1ubuntu0.1 [130 kB]
  Get:11 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 libnode72 amd64 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6 [10.8 MB]
  Get:12 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 libnode-dev amd64 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6 [609 kB]
  Get:13 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 pandoc-data all 2.9.2.1-3ubuntu2 [81.8 kB]
  Get:14 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 pandoc amd64 2.9.2.1-3ubuntu2 [20.3 MB]
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  ℹ Building hubUtils 0.5.0
  Error: 
  ! error in pak subprocess
  Caused by error in `read.dcf(con)`:
  ! Line starting 'hubUtils/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!
  ---
  Backtrace:
  1. pak::lockfile_install(".github/pkg.lock")
  2. pak:::remote(function(...) { …
  3. err$throw(res$error)
  ---
  Subprocess backtrace:
   1. base::withCallingHandlers(cli_message = function(msg) { …
   2. get("lockfile_install_internal", asNamespace("pak"))(...)
   3. plan$install()
   4. pkgdepends::install_package_plan(plan, lib = private$library, num_workers = nw, …
   5. base::withCallingHandlers({ …
   6. pkgdepends:::start_task(state, task)
   7. pkgdepends:::start_task_build(state, task)
   8. pkgdepends:::make_build_process(path, pkg, tmp_dir, lib, vignettes, needscompilation, …
   9. pkgdepends:::withr_with_libpaths(c(tmplib, lib), action = "prefix", pkgbuild::pkgbuild_…
  10. base::force(code)
  11. pkgbuild::pkgbuild_process$new(path, tmp_dir, binary = binary, …
  12. local initialize(...)
  13. pkgbuild:::rcb_init(self, private, super, path, dest_path, binary, vignettes, …
  14. pkgbuild:::build_setup(path, dest_path, binary, vignettes, manual, clean_doc, …
  15. base::isTRUE(get_desc_config_flag(path, "bootstrap"))
  16. pkgbuild:::get_desc_config_flag(path, "bootstrap")
  17. desc::desc_get(name, file = path)
  18. description$new(file = file)
  19. local initialize(...)
  20. desc:::idesc_create(self, private, cmd, file, text, package)
  21. desc:::idesc_create_file(self, private, file)
  22. desc:::idesc_create_text(self, private, lines)
  23. desc:::read_dcf(con)
  24. base::colnames(read.dcf(con))
  25. base::is.data.frame(x)
  26. base::read.dcf(con)
  27. base::.handleSimpleError(function (e) …
  28. global h(simpleError(msg, call))
  Execution halted

Reprex

options(repos = c("https://hubverse-org.r-universe.dev", getOption("repos")))
pak::pkg_install("hubUtils?source")
#> ℹ Loading metadata database
#> ✔ Loading metadata database ... done
#> 
#> 
#> → Will install 1 package.
#> → The package (376.11 kB) is cached.
#> + hubUtils   0.5.0 👷🏽‍♀️
#> ℹ No downloads are needed, 1 pkg (376.11 kB) is cached
#> ℹ Building hubUtils 0.5.0
#> Error: ! error in pak subprocess
#> Caused by error in `read.dcf(con)`:
#> ! Line starting 'hubUtils/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!

Last error trace shows that it’s coming from the desc package, so I’m trying to isolate the problem by downloading the tarball from the R-universe and reading the DESCRIPTION file in manually, but I cannot get it to fail.

Last error trace

<callr_error/rlib_error_3_0/rlib_error/error>
Error: 
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error in `read.dcf(con)`:
! Line starting 'hubUtils/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!
---
Backtrace:
1. pak::pkg_install("hubUtils?source")
2. pak:::remote(function(...) get("pkg_install_do_plan", asNamespace("pak"))(...), …
3. err$throw(res$error)
---
Subprocess backtrace:
 1. base::withCallingHandlers(cli_message = function(msg) { …
 2. get("pkg_install_do_plan", asNamespace("pak"))(...)
 3. proposal$install()
 4. pkgdepends::install_package_plan(plan, lib = private$library, num_workers = nw, …
 5. base::withCallingHandlers({ …
 6. pkgdepends:::start_task(state, task)
 7. pkgdepends:::start_task_build(state, task)
 8. pkgdepends:::make_build_process(path, pkg, tmp_dir, lib, vignettes, needscompilation, …
 9. pkgdepends:::withr_with_libpaths(c(tmplib, lib), action = "prefix", pkgbuild::pkgbuild_process$new(path, …
10. base::force(code)
11. pkgbuild::pkgbuild_process$new(path, tmp_dir, binary = binary, …
12. local initialize(...)
13. pkgbuild:::rcb_init(self, private, super, path, dest_path, binary, vignettes, …
14. pkgbuild:::build_setup(path, dest_path, binary, vignettes, manual, clean_doc, …
15. base::isTRUE(get_desc_config_flag(path, "bootstrap"))
16. pkgbuild:::get_desc_config_flag(path, "bootstrap")
17. desc::desc_get(name, file = path)
18. description$new(file = file)
19. local initialize(...)
20. desc:::idesc_create(self, private, cmd, file, text, package)
21. desc:::idesc_create_file(self, private, file)
22. desc:::idesc_create_text(self, private, lines)
23. desc:::read_dcf(con)
24. base::colnames(read.dcf(con))
25. base::is.data.frame(x)
26. base::read.dcf(con)
27. base::.handleSimpleError(function (e) …
28. global h(simpleError(msg, call))

tmp <- tempfile()
out <- tempfile()
download.file("https://hubverse-org.r-universe.dev/src/contrib/hubUtils_0.5.0.tar.gz", tmp)
untar(tmp, exdir = out)
desc::desc(file = file.path(out, "hubUtils", "DESCRIPTION"))
#> Package: hubUtils
#> Title: Core 'hubverse' Utilities
#> Version: 0.5.0
#> Authors@R (parsed):
#>     * Anna Krystalli <annakrystalli@googlemail.com> [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2378-4915>)
#>     * Li Shandross <lshandross@umass.edu> [ctb]
#>     * Nicholas G. Reich <nick@umass.edu> [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3503-9899>)
#>     * Evan L. Ray <elray@umass.edu> [ctb]
#>     * Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)
#>     * Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs [cph]
#> Author: Anna Krystalli [aut, cre] (ORCID:
#>     <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2378-4915>), Li Shandross [ctb], Nicholas
#>     G. Reich [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3503-9899>), Evan
#>     L. Ray [ctb], Zhian N. Kamvar [ctb] (ORCID:
#>     <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>), Consortium of Infectious
#>     Disease Modeling Hubs [cph]
#> Maintainer: Anna Krystalli <annakrystalli@googlemail.com>
#> Description: Core set of low-level utilities common across the 'hubverse'.
#>     Used to interact with 'hubverse' schema, Hub configuration files and
#>     model outputs and designed to be primarily used internally by other
#>     'hubverse' packages. See Reich et al. (2022)
#>     <doi:10.2105/AJPH.2022.306831> for an overview of Collaborative Hubs.
#> License: MIT + file LICENSE
#> URL: https://github.com/hubverse-org/hubUtils,
#>     https://hubverse-org.github.io/hubUtils/
#> BugReports: https://github.com/hubverse-org/hubUtils/issues
#> Depends:
#>     R (>= 4.1.0)
#> Imports:
#>     checkmate,
#>     cli,
#>     curl,
#>     fs,
#>     gh,
#>     glue,
#>     jsonlite,
#>     lifecycle,
#>     magrittr,
#>     memoise,
#>     purrr,
#>     rlang,
#>     stringr,
#>     tibble,
#>     utils
#> Suggests:
#>     arrow (>= 17.0.0),
#>     dplyr,
#>     knitr,
#>     rmarkdown,
#>     testthat (>=
#>         3.2.0)
#> Config/Needs/website: hubverse-org/hubStyle
#> Config/pak/sysreqs: git make libicu-dev libssl-dev
#> Config/testthat/edition: 3
#> Encoding: UTF-8
#> LazyData: true
#> NeedsCompilation: no
#> Packaged: 2025-04-28 04:55:58 UTC; root
#> RemoteRef: v0.5.0
#> RemoteSha: 93617b509c195d28cc0cb5ff40976888472af7f8
#> RemoteUrl: https://github.com/hubverse-org/hubUtils
#> Repository: https://hubverse-org.r-universe.dev
#> Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
#> RoxygenNote: 7.3.2

^{Created on 2025-05-07 with reprex v2.1.1}

[schloerke]

shinycoreci is also hitting this during second installation of packages from r-universe:

• macOS + {oldrel-2, oldrel-3, oldrel-4}
• ubuntu + {release, oldrel-1, oldrel-2, oldrel-3, oldrel-4}
• (currently not testing this code path on windows)

GHA Run: https://github.com/rstudio/shinycoreci/actions/runs/14889429833/job/41817655055?pr=303#step:14:245

GHA log output

Installing packages with pak::pkg_install(): shiny, shinyjster, shinytest2, bslib, fontawesome, htmltools, httpuv, later, promises, sass, cachem, fastmap, chromote, websocket
ℹ Loading metadata database
✔ Loading metadata database ... done

 
→ Will install 72 packages.
→ Will download 72 CRAN packages (100.70 MB).
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ℹ Building later 1.4.2.9000
Error : ! in callr subprocess.
Caused by error: 
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error in `read.dcf(con)`:
! Line starting 'later/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!

[jeroen]

Noticed this as well. It is probably related to a change deployed today for r-universe that added a File: field in PACKAGES to contain a sha, e.g. https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/src/contrib/PACKAGES

@gaborcsardi could it be that pak is trying to save the downloaded files on disk with the literal name sha256:blabla.... ? Or perhaps a cache mismatch due to the new File name?

[gaborcsardi]

pak (pkgbuild) indeed does not like these file names:

❯ pkgbuild::build("/tmp/sha256:e288e4c3d40336d809b67f8faa972e935cac13e8c5937f6332ddb3d24fa8c840", binary = TRUE)
Error in read.dcf(con) :
  Line starting 'hubUtils/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!

[gaborcsardi]

This is apparently from #157: 5018357#diff-428ddf51f10842192eff77a7e08dad6fea2be2ed07c4eaf285fe47cd1deb39bfR169

  bootstrap_file <- file.path(path, "bootstrap.R")
  run_boostrap <- isTRUE(get_desc_config_flag(path, "bootstrap"))
  if (file.exists(bootstrap_file) && run_boostrap) {
...

I am actually not sure why this runs for a package that was already built. I think it should not. @paleolimbot The bootstrap.R file is only meant to run in R CMD build, right?

[jeroen]

Yes, I am pretty sure the bootstrap.R script is to go from a git-checkout to something that can be R CMD build.

[paleolimbot]

Yes, bootstrap.R is supposed to run before build or from configure (for local development). I put it in .Rbuildignore such that it's not packaged but run it from configure if it's present (not sure that's related here, though!).

[jeroen]

The bug is triggered because desc it treats the file as plain-text when it does not have the usual pkg_version.ext format. Even omitting the version number will cause it to fail:

desc::description$new("hubUtils.tar.gz")
#Error in read.dcf(con) :
#  Line starting 'hubUtils/DESCRIPTION ...' is malformed!
#In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)

# Exactly the same file:
desc::description$new("hubUtils_0.4.tar.gz")

This is because of desc assumes this file is not a package because it does not pass is_valid_package_file_name:

https://github.com/r-lib/desc/blob/6e32ba71072a1e17a9e643ad5e15d30948c31015/R/package-archives.R#L36C1-L38

[gaborcsardi]

Will be fixed in pak devel once this workflow: https://github.com/r-lib/pak/actions/runs/14904541605 and the deployment at https://github.com/r-lib/r-lib.github.io/actions are done, in about an hour.

pak release coming soon.

[jeroen]

Confirm this now is fixed after updating devel version of pak:

install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/devel/%s/%s/%s",
  .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))

[zkamvar]

Am I correct in assuming that the solution for fixing this failure in GitHub workflows is to use the development version?

uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
with:
  pak-version: "devel"