Hi Paul, Am Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 07:08:04PM +0200 schrieb Paul Gevers: > Yes, we'll take care of that where it looks sane to do so (examples of that > are r-cran-epi); I'll manually schedule the "combined" tests, such that they > disappear from the excuses if they then pass.
OK. Thanks a lot for this service. Do you think the remaining serious tests are blockers? Should these be closed manually? > > Alternatively it would probably OK to remove all > > RC buggy r-bioc-* packages from testing since we need to upload new > > versions of these packages anyway in the pending BioC transition (I'll > > file an according bug report soon). > > If you're OK to temporarily remove r-bioc-*, than I think it's the fastest > and easiest way out, albeit not the prettiest. For sure it is not pretty, but since once week I'm fighting to non-pretty things and I'm really happy about fast and easy solutions. ;-) I have just filed a transition bug for r-bioc-* where we can discuss issues belonging to this transition. > Please all involved, hold any uploads in the r-* world until we get r-base > migrated unless it's needed (and we acked it). OK, I'll refrain from any upload of r-* packages (I'll answer your other mail about r-cran-tibble separately). > Paul > > PS: in a private discussion I had today, we noticed that r-* packages often > (always?) have a dependency on r-base-core with a lower limited version > equal to the r-base-core that was used during the build. With the > appropriate API in Provides of r-base-core, this should no longer be > necessary and ease migrations in the future. Could you please give some example to make sure I understand correctly? > We should probably file a bug > against dh-r (I guess) to fix that dependency. Or did we conclude that > wrong? I'm not sure so please explain in more detail. dh-r was designed to put the lowest restriction regarding the versions. I remember some discussion some time ago that Dirk thought we should put stronger restrictions (and he is sometimes adding version restrictions manually that are not helpful for backporting). If I will be sure I understand your point exactly I can check the code and the relevant discussion. (Feel free to file a bug report about this and we can discuss it there if you think this makes more sense.) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de