It seems unnecessary that BiocGenerics have the same package under Imports as under Depends. The former can be dropped.
> packageDescription("BiocGenerics") Package: BiocGenerics Title: S4 generic functions for Bioconductor Description: S4 generic functions needed by many Bioconductor packages. Version: 0.14.0 Author: The Bioconductor Dev Team Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintai...@bioconductor.org> biocViews: Infrastructure Depends: methods, utils, graphics, stats, parallel Imports: methods, utils, graphics, stats, parallel Suggests: Biobase, S4Vectors, IRanges, GenomicRanges, AnnotationDbi, oligoClasses, oligo, affyPLM, flowClust, affy, DESeq2, MSnbase, annotate, RUnit License: Artistic-2.0 Collate: S3-classes-as-S4-classes.R normarg-utils.R update-utils.R ..... NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2015-04-17 03:42:27 UTC; biocbuild Built: R 3.3.0; ; 2015-04-25 20:08:25 UTC; windows /Henrik _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel