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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 March 2019 at 07:49, Andreas Tille wrote:
| 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?

It has no issues at CRAN as I stated.  The package is fine.  If our process
shows up errors I consider it self-inflicted.

Dirk

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