Package that have never propagated get a shell landing page with empty rev deps fields

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See for example: https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.20/HTqPCR

Imports Me field is empty even though Bioconductor packages unifiedWMWqPCR and nondetects both import HTqPCR.

This is caused by a bug in the biocViews::write_VIEWS() function where the place holder for packages that haven't propagated yet is added after the computation of dependsOnMe, importsMe, etc... See

biocViews/R/repository.R

Lines 761 to 763 in acbc4c9

	# Add place Holder for valid packages compared to manifest
	# That haven't built so they get a shell landing page rather
	# than no landing page

More precisely, when the rev deps are computed here, the dbMat matrix doesn't have rows for the packages that haven't propagated yet, so when these packages are later added to the matrix they end up with nothing in these fields.

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Another occurence of this problem is pasilla which hasn't propagated in BioC 3.21 (current devel) yet, as of Nov 27, 2024. So its landing page doesn't report any reverse deps (see https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.21/pasilla) even though the package has many of them (via Suggests Me).

See landing page in release where the rev deps are correctly reported: https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.20/pasilla