[pkg-bioc] changelog 2

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 March 2005 at 09:53, Egon Willighagen wrote:
| 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... :)

Well one day we may make changes and then it will be nice to have this. Until
then, maybe it is better to concentrate on making the main script  more
robust.

Cheers, Dirk

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