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Re: r-bioc-biocinstaller (Was: r-base breaks 9 autopkgtests)



On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 03:05:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:18:47AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I think we're nearing the end of the R 3.6 transition, so I had a
> > brief look at the remaining autopkgtest regressions.
> > 
> > r-bioc-biocinstaller/1.32.1-1        needs update
> 
> I think this simply needs removal.  d/changelog contains:
> 
> 
>   [ Andreas Tille ]
>   https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.8/bioc/html/BiocInstaller.html says:
>     This package is for version 3.8 of Bioconductor. This package has been removed from Bioconductor.
>   Should we add a conflict to this package to r-bioc-biocgenerics ?
> 
>   [ Dylan Aïssi ]
>   * r-bioc-biocinstaller is now replaced by r-cran-biocmanager, we should also
>     manage the transition to the new package.
> 
> 
> Since we now finalised the BioC 3.9 migration and r-cran-biocmanager was 
> not needed by any of the packaged BioC packages I'd vote for an immediate
> removal of r-bioc-biocinstaller.  Am I missing anything?

May be I was missing that we need to do Conflicts/Replaces/Provides:
r-bioc-biocinstaller which I did in [1] and uploaded.

Anything else?

Kind regards

         Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-biocmanager/commit/2da2e4bc04c9b5d504f4bc85f0ce17eb643a88f8
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