[pkg-bioc] changelog 2

[Egon Willighagen]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:36 am, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 21 March 2005 at 13:27, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> | On Monday 21 March 2005 12:01 pm, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> | > Another thingy...
> | >
> | > The changelog now states something like:
> | >
> | > date (1.2.18-0.r2d.1) unstable; urgency=low
> | >
> | >   * mechanically generated using cran2deb 1.3
> | >
> | >  -- CRAN/BioC packagers <pkg-bioc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>  Mon,
> | > 21 Mar 2005 11:23:05 +0100
> |
> | It now looks like:
> |
> | mcmcpack (0.6.4-0.r2d.1) unstable; urgency=low
> |
> |   * mechanically generated using cran2deb.pl 1.13 and CRAN2DEB.pm 1.5
> |
> |  -- CRAN/BioC packagers <pkg-bioc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>  Mon, 21
> | Mar 2005 12:20:49 +0100
>
> Looks good.
>
> But if may ask one innocent question: Why again do we need?  I mean, the
> way I see it, these packages are probably not going to be part of Debian,
> and will be simple binary compilations -- without changes on our part -- of
> the source CRAN packages.  So if we don't make changes, do we need a
> changelog?

To track the history of the archive/specific deb? Mmmm... can't think of 
anything better... We both said it was usefull.... but why again... :)

Egon