[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor archive?

[Lluís Revilla]

Hi,

Recently I learned thanks to Martin Morgan that there are some files with
the Date/Publication fields for Bioconductor packages:
https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/VIEWS. I'm trying to reconstruct
which packages from  CRAN and Biocondctor were available at any moment and
it was very helpful.

However, these files have the latest version published by a package on a
given Bioconductor release.
Is there a way to know if there were more updates after a release?
I thought about searching the git log for each package. But that wouldn't
be enough, as they might have increased their version but not passed
Bioconductor checks, and thus not be released.

Related to this, this field is present from Bioconductor version 3.7 or
later but I couldn't find it on previous releases. Is there a way to know
previous packages' releases and their dates?

Packages' updates on the release branch should on contain bug fixes, but
for reproducibility purposes it might be necessary to get the same bugs
again.

Many thanks in advance,

Lluís

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