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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 June 2007 at 15:44, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| 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| the outdated R policy,

Yes we will need to be careful about changing the numbering scheme. Maybe
pretest that the new number really sorts larger or something. Nobody plans to
break systems on purpose.

Dirk

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