Control: severity -1 serious On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 22:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be very surprised if these were not self-inflicted by us. I know CRAN > (much) better than BioC, but both of them are doing extensive self-tests (and > generally without any arbitrary restrictions, say about timing and versions) > we may impose.
This situation reminds me of #877288, where I believe Debian's autopkgtests detected the problem before upstream. > I tried a quick test on a Debian testing machine I use for (extensive) > reverse dependency checks (at the upstream level) but it was incloncusive. Hopefully we get an answer from upstream BioConductor soon. > Still a pity that r-base is held back by this. This is better than allowing a package that breaks others to migrate into testing. If there is no progress for some time, Release Team may remove r-bioc-iranges and r-bioc-s4vectors from testing to allow r-base to migrate, as in any other transition.
