"Package required but not available" error on CRAN

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I have a package on CRAN. It has some Bioconductor dependencies. Sometimes, I see an error "Package required but not available" for one of them for some flavors on CRAN package check results page. Why does this happen? If it's a problem connecting to Bioconductor, shouldn't it happen for all Bioconductor dependencies and not just one?

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I don't know the answer, but I would not worry about it too much, until CRAN tells you that there is a problem.

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It has been happening for a while, so I agree it probably is okay. However, I am curious why this happens, especially since I never see it happen locally or using GitHub Actions.

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Either some CRAN maintainers do not want to install Bioc packages on some platforms, or they do not happen to work on those platforms.

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