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[Bioc-devel] Workflow package build all OK but no vignette and red Package propagation status LED

4 messages · James Perkins, Martin Grigorov, Hervé Pagès

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Hi,

I am the maintainer of the Workflow package ExpHunterSuite.

In the build report for the release branch, 3.18, my build and install 
status are green-OK.

However, I have a red LED for Package Propagation. How can I tell what's 
gone wrong, and how could I fix it?

https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.18/workflows-LATEST/ExpHunterSuite/

I've had a look through the documentation and the nearest I've found 
was: "propagation is still determined by the results of the nightly 
builds." - but I cannot find/workout the relevant section in the output 
of the nightly build report that is related to propagation status.

The landing page of the package is not showing the documentation 
(vignette etc.), or letting me download the package source.

https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.18/workflows/html/ExpHunterSuite.html

I suspect this is related, because the devel version of the package IS 
showing blue propagation status, and IS showing the 
documentation/package source etc.

https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.19/workflows/html/ExpHunterSuite.html

Cheers!

Jim
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Hi,

If you hover over the red LED you will see the following hint: NO, package
depends on 'miRBaseConverter' which is not available"

Regards,
Martin
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 11:31?AM James Perkins <jimrperkins at uma.es> wrote:

            

  
  
4 days later
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Thanks I didn't know about the mouseover hint! It appears that this 
package (miRBaseConverter) is failing the check on linux:

https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.18/bioc-LATEST/miRBaseConverter/

Leading to the red light ExpHunterSuite on the linux build only:

https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.18/workflows-LATEST/ExpHunterSuite/

However, what I'm not sure about - is this unavailable dependency the 
reason why the landing page for ExpHunterSuite does not show the 
vignette or source code?

https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.18/workflows/html/ExpHunterSuite.html

Or could it be another factor?

Jim
On 2023-11-13 12:08, Martin Grigorov wrote:
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Hi Jim,
On 11/17/23 06:22, James Perkins wrote:
Yes. The vignettes displayed on the package landing pages are generated 
from what's found in the _published_ source tarball. Since no source 
tarball for ExpHunterSuite ever made it to the BioC 3.18 repositories, 
the landing page that we produce is missing a few things (it's a 
degraded version of the standard landing page).

Note that miRBaseConverter has been failing on Linux for more than 6 
months, for not declaring BiocStyle in its Suggests field, and despite 
numerous reminders (emails sent by core team members in addition to the 
weekly automatic BBS notifications). Maybe you want to try and ping the 
miRBaseConverter maintainer by opening an issue at 
https://github.com/taoshengxu/miRBaseConverter ? Maybe you'll have more 
luck.

Otherwise, we will soon deprecate miRBaseConverter in BioC 3.19. 
Unfortunately this means that you'll need to modify the ExpHunterSuite 
workflow to no longer rely on it.

Best,

H.