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Upcoming BioC transition (Was: Removal of S.h)



Hi Dylan,

would you mind organising the transition as in previous cases?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

Am Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 12:16:27PM +0200 schrieb Graham Inggs:
> Hi Johannes
> 
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 11:22, Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke@jrwb.de> wrote:
> > Regarding the removal of S.h, the R 4.2.0 NEWS file states:
> >
> > * The header S.h which has been unsupported since Jan 2016 has been
> >       removed.  Use R.h instead.
> >
> > This suggests that R core sees this as a bug in (bioconductor) packages still
> > using S.h, and not as an API change.
> >
> > It seems to me, the situation being as it is, the easiest way to fix
> > bioconductor in unstable and testing is to upload the new versions scheduled
> > for April 27 before r-base migrates to testing. Not exactly clean, but bumping
> > the API now would require managing a transition and rebuilding hundreds of
> > packages that do not have an issue, right?
> 
> Agreed, I don't think we want or need an r-api-* bump for this change.
> Besides, r-base will not be allowed to migrate due to autopkgtest
> failures anyway, so we will just have to wait for the r-bioc-*
> transition.
> 
> > > we can delay the creation of r-ge-api-*
> > > which might be discussed if this and only this is needed.
> 
> Why delay the creation of r-ge-api-*?  If it will help future
> transitions, I think now would be a good time to add it, seeing we
> already have to investigate which packages will need it.
> 
> Regards
> Graham
> 
> 

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