[R-pkg-team] Bug#924514: multcomp breaks r-cran-dosefinding autopkgtest

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 06:27:35AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> | > No issue at CRAN for multcomp:
> | > 
> | >    https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_multcomp.html
> | > 
> | > So this is likely self-inflicted at Debian.
> | 
> | @Dirk: Could you please be more verbose in how far that link is a sign
> | that DoseFinding 0.9-16 works with multcomp 1.4-10.  
> 
> It is a table of checks across architectures and R version. None shows an issue.
> 
> CRAN run reverse-depends on all package updates prior to admitting to CRAN.
> 
> multcomp being on CRAN means there was no issue with its reverse depends.

Thanks for the clarification.
 
> CRAN may not check Suggests.  I argued for years we should not either.

I do not follow discussions on CRAN but I'd consider warnings about
issues with Suggests a nice feature.

> If it breaks in Suggests, you "get to keep the pieces".  I do not have the
> time to investigate what I consider to be a non-problems. Happy to help, but
> this is self-inflicted.

In how far it is self-inflicted if some R package does not pass its test
suite?
 
Kind regards

         Andreas.

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