Re: r-bioc-biocinstaller (Was: r-base breaks 9 autopkgtests)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > That's wrong. R-bioc-affy and r-bioc-annotationhub depended from it
> > (otherwise I would not have packaged it). I'm maintaining a manually
> > crafted dependency graph to know what package needs to be touched first:
>
> I don't see the dependency.
>
> $ reverse-depends -r buster src:r-bioc-biocinstaller
> No reverse dependencies found
>
> $ reverse-depends -b -r buster src:r-bioc-biocinstaller
> No reverse dependencies found
It was **before** buster!
> > Provides / Replaces informs (previous) dependencies that everything
> > is OK with the dependency tree.
>
> I don't believe that is going to work. See section RenamingPackages
> [1] from the wiki. I believe you need to use the Transition Package
> Method, not the Clean Slate Method, if you want r-bioc-biocinstaller
> to be replaced by r-cran-biocmanager during an upgrade.
What's your reasoning why you do not believe that this will work?
Kind regards
Andreas.
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages
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