[pkg-bioc] Questions before breaking everything...

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 June 2007 at 13:39, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| In an off-list discussion with Dirk, I was made aware of a new policy change 
| that changes the upstream package version from R's x.y-z  to Debian's full 
| version string x.y-z_0.r2d.1 rather than today's x.y.z_0.r2d.1. This has a 

Let's not get carried away.  The Debian packages used to alter upstream
numbering (and I said so in the 3 yr old draft of R Policy) but Rafael and
Chris L convinced me that it;s better not to do that. So where feasible (ie
when at version number increases enough to make the switch) I have changed
all my (manual) r-cran-* package to do the same. 

Not that some CRAN packages use dots only, so non-issue there.

| dramatic impact on any of us who have  x.y.z_0.r2d.1 packages installed 
| anywhere since these will not be automatically updated to  x.y-(z+1)_0.r2d.1. 

Let's see what the impact would be and then deal with this.

| Actually, my problem in this respect arose when a student said she could no 
| longer program with RMySQL because of the outdated DBI package .... and this 
| was not on my Debian packaging machine :o)

Yes, local admin mistake. Those happen :)

| I agree to your change, David. My main concern is on the versioning at the 
| moment.... and I have kind of a love'n'hate relationship with our ugly 
| duckling 'cran2deb.pl'....which actually does what it is supposed to do.

Just put some more work into it and it'll be closer to a beautiful
swan ;-)  We'll get there.

Dirk

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