Re: Britney fails to pin complete set in "Provides" api transitions [Was: Bug#1010422: transition: r-api-bioc-3.15]
On 19 May 2022 2:25:23 pm IST, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
>Am Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:41:12PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
>>
>> I think we can workaround these anyway by editing the DESCRIPTION file -- maybe I'll do so and upload either late in the night today or early morning Tom.
>
>I do not think that editing DESCRIPTION is the prefered way to
>fix our transition. As I wrote in my other mail removing them
>from testing manually should do the trick as well, IMHO.
I disagree.
I don't really think stalling the migration just for a couple of packages is a sensible thing to do.
There is not a functional difference (real API change) so keeping a couple of packages outdated (and that too because pre-deps are in new) is no big deal.
We already have tons of cran stuff being backdated due to several reasons, I don't think this situation is very different. I know the bioc api is different but there's no functional difference in working of package at all.
I would rather do what it takes and complete the transition, so as to unbreak packages and also not consume un-necessary bandwidth of release team members.
And so, I'd continue to patch description and upload anyway. If you're very/extremely against it, please do let me know soon so we figure out something else.
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Best,
Nilesh
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