Registry fails to update with 'unpacking the sent packfile failed on the remote'

[Bisaloo]

https://github.com/r-universe/epiforecasts/actions/workflows/sync.yml

ERROR updating forecast.vocs from https://github.com/epiforecasts/forecast.vocs (unpacking the sent packfile failed on the remote)

ERROR updating socialmixr from https://github.com/epiforecasts/socialmixr (unpacking the sent packfile failed on the remote)

ERROR updating cmdstanr from https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstanr (unpacking the sent packfile failed on the remote)

Error in sync::sync_from_registry("https://github.com/r-universe/epiforecasts") :
Failed to update packages: forecast.vocs, socialmixr, cmdstanr

[jeroen]

I thought maybe the repo is corrupted somehow, so I deleted it and started from scratch, but the problem persists...

[jeroen]

OK I found the problem. The root cause is a syntax error in the Authors@R field from the description file in forecast.vocs.

Your last commit of the description file added an author, however you have mixed up the parenthesis and therefore instead of two person() objects, you have one person() which is nested into another. Somehow R accepts this and we get a malformed maintainer signature.

I have added a step to the universe sync function that tries to validate the maintainer sig before using it in the commit: r-universe-org/sync@42e61e5

[Bisaloo]

Ah yes, good catch. And socialmixr had a similar issue that I fixed a couple of days ago: epiforecasts/socialmixr@541d170 (missing closing parenthesis on L13).

Thanks for your help!