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

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lun <

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).