[R-pkg-devel] CRAN archival: Does CRAN un-archive some packages automatically?

Steven P Sanderson II @p@@nder@on @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Nov 1 17:48:15 CET 2023


I believe the version must be bumped and pushed. This was the case for me
as my package was not un-archived.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 12:31 PM Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm asking here to spare the CRAN Team a direct message, but also
> because the answer is of interest to others:
>
> Consider a package PkgA that was archived on CRAN, because it fails
> checks and errors that were not corrected in time.  At the moment when
> package PkgA is archived, it will trigger automatic archiving of other
> CRAN packages that has a hard dependency on it. Say, packages PkgB and
> PkgC were archived automatically, because of their dependency on PkgA.
>
> Question: If PkgA is at a later point revived on CRAN, will CRAN
> unarchive PkgB and PkgC automatically? Or, should the maintainers of
> PkgB and PkgC resubmit? If they have to resubmit, should they submit
> identical versions and tarballs as before, or do they have to bump the
> version?
>
> /Henrik
>
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