[R-pkg-team] Bug#913305: Bug#913305: r-bioc-s4vectors breaks multiple autopkgtests

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

Le ven. 9 nov. 2018 à 16:45, Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi
>
> On 2018/11/09 16:40, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > If the answer to my question above is "those packages are broken", then
> > my next question is, if it is somehow possible to let the package
> > dependency framework know that this is a transition?
>
> In my opinion, r-bioc-s4vectors needs a bunch of additional breaks, as I
> did in 0.18.1-3 and 0.18.1-4.  This eased the migration somewhat in Ubuntu.
>

As it's not recommended mixing BioC packages from different BioC
releases, maybe we can introduce (for next BioC release?) a mechanism
similar to the virtual r-api-3.5 package i.e. r-api-bioc-3.8 (provided
by r-bioc-biocgenerics).
This could avoid to spend other people's time to open bugs like this
one or #913527.

Best,
Dylan