[R-pkg-team] Bug#1118697: r-bioc-biocgenerics: prepare r-cran-* r-bioc-* architecture transition by removing Bioc from Testing

[Charles Plessy]

Package: r-bioc-biocgenerics
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-release at lists.debian.org

Hello everybody,

The next release of Bioconductor is planned for the end of this month.

Upstream, Bioconductor packages are regression-tested within their release
only.  As we can not take cross-release stability on our shoulders, we
have for some time made all r-bioc-* packages depend on a virtual package
called r-api-bioc-<versionnumber>.  For this reason, each Bioconductor
release causes a transition in Debian.

In addition, this year, we are planning a big change for the R packages
maintained by the r-pkg-team: we will align our support to only the
architectural features supported upstream, which are 64-bit and little-endian.
This will tangle with the Bioconductor transition.

To clear the path forward, I am opening this RC bug against
r-bioc-biocgenerics, which provides r-api-bioc-3.20 at the moment, so that the
whole Bioconductor and its reverse dependencies are removed from Testing.

While I have not been able to inspect the reverse dependency network
of Bioconductor, I am confident that it is limited to bioinformatics
packages only, as Bioconductor itself is specialised in this area.

Have a nice day,

Charles

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