[R-pkg-team] Bug#947004: Bug#947001: r-base blocked by r-bioc-{iranges, s4vectors}

[Graham Inggs]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 22:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> I would be very surprised if these were not self-inflicted by us. I know CRAN
> (much) better than BioC, but both of them are doing extensive self-tests (and
> generally without any arbitrary restrictions, say about timing and versions)
> we may impose.

This situation reminds me of #877288, where I believe Debian's
autopkgtests detected the problem before upstream.

> I tried a quick test on a Debian testing machine I use for (extensive)
> reverse dependency checks (at the upstream level) but it was incloncusive.

Hopefully we get an answer from upstream BioConductor soon.

> Still a pity that r-base is held back by this.

This is better than allowing a package that breaks others to migrate
into testing.
If there is no progress for some time, Release Team may remove
r-bioc-iranges and r-bioc-s4vectors from testing to allow r-base to
migrate, as in any other transition.