[Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in BioC 3.2

[Dan Tenenbaum]

The main reason for packages to change in release is because of bug fixes, also documentation enhancements.

You should not expect the versions in release to be frozen. 
Dan


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd Klaus" <bernd.klaus at embl.de>
> To: "Stefano Berri" <sberri at illumina.com>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:48:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in BioC 3.2

> Hi Stefano,
> 
> developers are not supposed to change the package fundamentally in the
> release branch, however small fixes are allowed to be back-ported and
> marked by a bump of the last digit:
> 
> http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/version-numbering/
> 
> (E.g. fixing typos in the vignette or updating the citation
> information)
> As far as I know, only the url
> 
> 
> http://bioconductor.org/pckages/<packageName>
> 
> is stable.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> 
> itefano wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> Maybe I am getting something wrong, but I am pretty sure I noticed
>> the change of package version for some Bioconductor packages in 3.2
>> 
>> In particular
>> 
>> -       IRanges_2.4.6.tar.gz \
>> +      IRanges_2.4.8.tar.gz \
>> -       Biostrings_2.38.3.tar.gz \
>> +      Biostrings_2.38.4.tar.gz \
>> -       rtracklayer_1.30.1.tar.gz \
>> +      rtracklayer_1.30.2.tar.gz \
>> -       GenomicFeatures_1.22.12.tar.gz \
>> +      GenomicFeatures_1.22.13.tar.gz \
>> 
>> where [-] indicates what it used to work, [+] what it works right
>> now.
>> 
>> For instance, url
>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/src/contrib/IRanges_2.4.6.t
>> ar.gz
>> 
>> worked a month ago but now it doesn't anymore and url
>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/src/contrib/IRanges_2.4.8.t
>> ar.gz
>> 
>> works instead
>> 
>> I thought that once the package collection have been released (3.2
>> was released in October) that is frozen forever and changes only
>> happen in the development release.
>> 
>> Am I missing something or got something wrong? At what point urls are
>> considered stable?
>> 
>> Thank you very much
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Stefano
>> 
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