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

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

The previous release is completely frozen though.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:

> 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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