Failing test in test suite

[tillea]

Hi,
I intended to upgrade the Debian package of withr to the latest version 2.5.2. Unfortunately there is one failing test in your test suite. We are running the script which boils down to

cd tests
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 R --no-save < testthat.R

In the full test log you can find the following error output:

══ Failed tests ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
── Error ('test-language.R:5:3'): can temporarily change language ──────────────
<notSubsettableError/error/condition>
Error in `mean[[1]]`: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. ├─testthat::expect_error(with_lang("fr_FR", "fr", mean[[1]]), "non indiçable") at test-language.R:5:2
 2. │ └─testthat:::expect_condition_matching(...)
 3. │   └─testthat:::quasi_capture(...)
 4. │     ├─testthat (local) .capture(...)
 5. │     │ └─base::withCallingHandlers(...)
 6. │     └─rlang::eval_bare(quo_get_expr(.quo), quo_get_env(.quo))
 7. └─withr:::with_lang("fr_FR", "fr", mean[[1]])
[ FAIL 1 | WARN 2 | SKIP 2 | PASS 364 ]
Error: Test failures

This log is for version 2.5.1 but the result is perfectly the same for 2.5.2
Any idea what might be wrong here?
Kind regards, Andreas.

[tillea]

Any idea what might cause this test fail?

[lionel-]

I'll try and take some time to take a look this week.

[lionel-]

@tillea Could you check that this is fixed with the latest dev version please?

[tillea]

Seems this patch works to ignore the affected test. Due to a Perl transition in Debian I had to tweak the build and did something slightly differently from my test above but I think it is safe to assume that you can tag a new release to fix the reported problem. Thanks a lot, Andreas.

[lionel-]

Thanks! We'll likely release within the next 10 days.

[lionel-]

On CRAN!