Thanks Lori for the clarification. If the purpose of the check is to
capture the R version upon submission to Bioconductor, then it makes sense.
I would suggest a bit of clarification in the docs though. Also, a warning
is not produced when "Depends: R (xxx)" is completely missing in
DESCRIPTION.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lun <
> infinite.monkeys.with.keyboa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > well, we can't fix this in old branches of Bioc.
> >
> > Sure, but one could say that about
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lun <
infinite.monkeys.with.keyboa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > well, we can't fix this in old branches of Bioc.
>
> Sure, but one could say that about breaking changes to any CRAN package.
> Nothing particularly special about BH on that point.
>
Indeed, and
Bioconductor has release cycles to ensure that packages are building cleaning
and working with dependency at any given time. The version would not have to
be updated each release, it is an indication of the version of R used at the
time of submission and to give a base line of what versions
