From aa7ee99ad216dcf3cbedf92920c46fea1ca8a7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:12:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add commonmark to DESCRIPTION dependencies

The `commonmark` and `xml2` packages are required for parsing the `NEWS.md` file, see `help('news', package = 'utils')`.

Fixes https://github.com/r-universe-org/help/issues/649
---
 DESCRIPTION | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4d9a481..b766afa 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Imports:
     callr,
     cli,
     codetools,
+    commonmark,
     graph,
     httr2,
     knitr,
@@ -37,7 +38,8 @@ Imports:
     rvest,
     stringdist,
     tools,
-    utils
+    utils,
+    xml2
 Suggests: 
     BiocStyle,
     devtools,

From 4a4b4ca92d44758d4e99c7e536a195f1cf8e0cde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:45:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add error message to output

---
 R/checks.R | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/R/checks.R b/R/checks.R
index 3905edc..c54f7ad 100644
--- a/R/checks.R
+++ b/R/checks.R
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ checkNEWS <- function(pkgdir)
     }, error=function(e){
         handleWarning(
             "news(package='", basename(pkgdir), "') failed with news file: ",
-            newsPath, ".",
+            newsPath, ":", e$message,
             "\nRefer to https://contributions.bioconductor.org/news.html",
             " to be included in Bioconductor release announcements."
         )