The blacklist option in createGenomeAnnotation has no effect

[tao-bioinfo]

My Grange object of blacklist is called black_gr

> black_gr
GRanges object with 325 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
        seqnames            ranges strand
           <Rle>         <IRanges>  <Rle>
    [1]      A01 14152163-14154264      *
    [2]      A01 19793379-19794689      *
    [3]      A01 19794876-19796332      *
    [4]      A01 19796960-19798610      *
    [5]      A01 26332584-26334966      *
    ...      ...               ...    ...
  [321]      D13 10077198-10078218      *
  [322]      D13 18407823-18408963      *
  [323]      D13 42194637-42195944      *
  [324]      D13 46117333-46118332      *
  [325]      D13 57684916-57687919      *
  -------
  seqinfo: 26 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths

Then:

> genomeAnnotation = createGenomeAnnotation(genome = BSgenome.Ghir.HAU.v1, filter = FALSE, filterChr=NULL, blacklist = black_gr)

However the blacklist has not been added successfully.

> genomeAnnotation = createGenomeAnnotation(genome = BSgenome.Ghir.HAU.v1, filter = FALSE, filterChr=NULL, blacklist = black_gr)
Getting genome..
Getting chromSizes..
Getting blacklist..
Blacklist not downloaded! Continuing without, be careful for downstream biases..

> genomeAnnotation$blacklist
GRanges object with 0 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
   seqnames    ranges strand
      <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle>
  -------
  seqinfo: no sequences

[rcorces]

transferring this to an Issue because its a bug. See #913