[R-pkg-devel] Warnings with reverse dependencies in mutually dependend packages?

[Daniel Lüdecke]

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, both packages will work. It's just that I renamed some functions in package B (e.g. `get_val_labels` to `get_labels`) and calling `get_val_labels` now throws a "deprecated"-warning (I'm using `.Deprecated` in that function call).

Thus, checking reverse dependencies, my current package A on CRAN will of course give warnings due to calling old function names, however, I already updated package A accordingly, which will no longer throw warnings once both packages A and B are updated on CRAN.

Also, I'm already using version identifiers in my DESCRIPTION file, so depend packages with correct required versions should be installed.

I guess it's not important, but the packages I'm talking about are `sjPlot` and `sjmisc`.

Best
Daniel

Am 25.08.2015 um 16:56 schrieb Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:

> On 25/08/2015 9:48 AM, Daniel Lüdecke wrote:
>> I maintain two packages, which are kind of "mutually depending" on each 
>> other. Now I have updated package A, like to submit it - however, it 
>> produces warnings (in my package B) when doing the reverse dependency 
>> check. Yet I cannot fix the warnings in package B and submit it, since 
>> it relies on new functions of package A, which has to be submitted 
>> first... and so on.
>> 
>> My question: is it ok to submit package A, saying that I'm aware of the 
>> warnings in package B, which are already fixed, and that I would submit 
>> package B after package A has been released on CRAN?
> 
> 
> It's not clear to me whether both packages will work in the time when
> you've updated A but not B.  If not, this is a bad idea:  users of your
> packages will be left with broken systems.
> 
> If you want to make incompatible changes to A, and B is the only reverse
> dependency, then you could update both at once.  When you submit the
> first one, say that the other submission is coming as well.
> 
> You should also be making use of version specifiers in your DESCRIPTION
> file.  If B version 2 won't work with A version 1, then say that, via
> 
> Depends:  A (>=2.0.0)
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

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