[Bioc-devel] package RBGL requires CRAN dependency on devel branch

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lun <
infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards using gmail.com> wrote:

> > well, we can't fix this in old branches of Bioc.
>
> Sure, but one could say that about breaking changes to any CRAN package.
> Nothing particularly special about BH on that point.
>

Indeed, and this has been my position for a number of years. Having said
that, dynamic linking / headers in my experience increase the chance of
breaking and it is usually a kind of breakage which requires substantial
insight to fix (as opposed to say changing the order / naming of arguments
in an R function, which is really easy to diagnose even if you know nothing
about the package).

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