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

[Steffen Moeller]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:19:37 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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.

My sole point is that anybody who installs any of our current packages will 
not experience an update of those packages unless x or y have changed. In my 
very serious opinion we should hence not prepare any more packages following 
the outdated R policy,

Many greetings

Steffen
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