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

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

Le lun. 12 nov. 2018 à 13:25, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> a écrit :
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:07:36AM +0100, Dylan Aďssi 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.

I have implemented it into dh-r [1]. As I am not very confident with
my perl skills, it would be nice if someone could check if there is no
big mistake.
I have tested those changes to build some packages and it works. So, I
will start to deploy this in the next days.

Best,
Dylan

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/merge_requests/1/diffs