This is already implemented in BiocCheck; but BiocCheck is not run on accepted 
packages currently.  So people have the opportunity to check it whenever they 
like

We flush libraries so then they are picked up on the Bioconductor Build System 
and maintainers will get the automatic build notifications.






Lori Shepherd - Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

________________________________
From: Llu�s Revilla <lluis.revi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6:14 PM
To: Kern, Lori <lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org>
Cc: bioc-devel <bioc-devel@r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] List of Deprecated Packages for Bioc3.21

Hi Lori,

There is no need to flush libraries or reinstall R versions to check packages 
available on repositories.
Comparing available packages with dependencies of current (or devel) 
Bioconductor dependencies generates that list.

Checking this more often will give package maintainers more time to adjust and 
update their packages.
It could also strengthen the collaboration between packages as they can work 
with upstream developers to get the packages back to the repository 
(Bioconductor or CRAN).

If there is interest I could write a small script to do it on the Bioconductor 
checks or outside and report back to the community. (I already have this in a 
package to be published in a repository once R 4.5 is released. It doesn't take 
longer than 3 seconds on my computer. )

Best,

Llu�s

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 13:14, Kern, Lori 
<lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org<mailto:lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org>> wrote:
Because of the way the builders are set up we only see CRAN dependency 
disappear when we do a new install of R or manually flush the repository.  
Therefore there can be a delay in seeing these failures/ERROR's.   If it is due 
to a Bioconductor package,  we normally notify reverse dependencies once a 
package is listed as deprecated (not necessarily only failing).

We try to be very fair to package maintainers so depending on when we (and 
they) are aware of the failure, we may give them extra time moving into a 
release as we realize package maintenance is not everyone's top priority (even 
tho we would like it to be)


Lori Shepherd - Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

________________________________
From: Llu�s Revilla <lluis.revi...@gmail.com<mailto:lluis.revi...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2025 4:05 AM
To: Kern, Lori <lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org>
Cc: bioc-devel <bioc-devel@r-project.org<mailto:bioc-devel@r-project.org>>
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] List of Deprecated Packages for Bioc3.21

Hi Lori,

There is some 
documentation<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1CaaN3K9FoTk2Yod51sOa073f3kslapZhz7-LVKYRBmE93Yq1qBXI4SRYWldRJEjARLQRUbqtbWxUO8xJrGXFZs6h3-B6ge0M7EdxtpwKgJAVFhA8R2zE7GkKmWorRq7eQ7UvSZFnj-hPRzxJw8nmGAqsJx_bjDQBVuUEIjD_mDmplcj1IgsAVBbzdD8Kkjzfetcxv4eR_9zCQfnpb0DgFOvThpu6M7zp6rZ8djT-_4SyjfCX-Wu5yVL6Qt-lnAIt03FWlt3zJakrcdbCo0KdTYN8iBqm7Hwi0ICpEa8W1gp7wR7yl0d_uQMCSoRShNGo/https%3A%2F%2Fcontributions.bioconductor.org%2Fpackage-end-of-life-policy.html%23criteria-for-package-deprecation-by-core-team>
 about how to keep a package on Bioconductor (and when they are archived). 
Among other conditions it mentions that they shouldn't be failing checks.

There are currently two packages on Bioconductor 3.20 that depend on a package 
no longer available, as a consequence they fail some checks. One dependency is 
a software package on CRAN and the other an experimental data package.
These packages do not have the dependency removed on the devel branch as far as 
I can tell or the maintainers are aware of the situation ( no activity on their 
issue tracker).

However, I don't see these packages on this list. Are these cases handled 
differently?

Best,

Llu�s



On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 15:56, Kern, Lori via Bioc-devel 
<bioc-devel@r-project.org<mailto:bioc-devel@r-project.org>> wrote:
The Bioconductor Team is continuing to identify packages that will be 
deprecated in the next release to allow for the Bioconductor community to 
respond accordingly. This is the current list of deprecated packages for Bioc 
3.21.

It should be noted, we did try to reach out to these package maintainers 
multiple times and they were either unresponsive or had emails bounce. We 
encourage anyone that is familiar with a package maintainer on this list to 
reach out to them and notify them directly. Packages can be un-deprecated if a 
maintainer fixes the package to build/check cleanly before the next release and 
requests un-deprecation on the 
bioc-devel@r-project.org<mailto:bioc-devel@r-project.org> mailing list

Do not un-deprecate a package yourself. You must request un-deprecation from 
the Bioconductor core team at 
bioc-devel@r-project.org<mailto:bioc-devel@r-project.org>. We will not 
recognize a self un-deprecation

Software User Requested:
- Director
- erma
- girafe
- RBioinf
- Rtreemix
- synapter
- zlibbioc

Software Unresponsive:

- AneuFinder
- BEARscc
- CBEA
- chromstaR
- coMET
- crossmeta
- dce
- DeProViR
- DIAlignR
- GeneGeneInteR
- genoCN
- gespeR
- GraphPAC
- HTSeqGenie
- iPAC
- MAGeCKFlute
- netDx
- NeuCA
- PanViz
- pareg
- paxtoolsr
- PICS
- PING
- QuartPAC
- ReactomeContentService4R
- RGMQL
- SpacePAC
- staRank
- STdeconvolve
- supraHex
- trigger
- TypeInfo

Experiment Data Requested

-  parathyroidSE
- benchmarkfdrData2019
- synapterdata

Workflow Requested

- BiocMetaWorkflow

Annotation Data Requested

- mirbase.db
- targetscan.Hs.eg.db
- targetscan.Mm.eg.db




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Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263


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