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

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:07:36AM +0100, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
> 
> 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).

I think that's a pretty sensible solution and if you don't mind we could
add this even to this BioC release.  It might involve dh-r hacking
thought.

> This could avoid to spend other people's time to open bugs like this
> one or #913527.

Yes.

Kind regards

    Andreas.

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