[BioC] getBioC(relLevel="devel") fails under r-devel

[Douglas Bates]

Using a current version of r-devel on a Debian GNU/Linux system I
encounter an error in getBioC(relLevel="devel").

The part of the transcript after creating the reposTools package is

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* DONE (reposTools)
Loading required package: reposTools 
Loading required package: Biobase 
Error in bindingIsLocked(m2, where) : not an environment
Creating a new generic function for "summary" in "reposTools" 
There were 29 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
Error in "[<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, , fields[i], value = I(strsplit(df[,  : 
	replacement element 2 has 2 rows, need 33
In addition: Warning message: 
provided 33 variables to replace 1 variables in: "[<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, , fields[i], value = I(strsplit(df[,