[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor archive?

[Kern, Lori]

It looks like the Date/Publication field is only present when there was a change on the branch post release.   (ie. any package that has a version x.y.(z+n) instead of x.y.0.
After a release is frozen and a new release occurs, Bioconductor does not allow any changes or fixes even to bugs.  A release is frozen so there is no changes after the new release occurs.
I would have to dig in the history but my guess is 3.7 might be when we either switched to git or started having archived versions so likely not available before this date.




Lori Shepherd - Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

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Hi,

Recently I learned thanks to Martin Morgan that there are some files with
the Date/Publication fields for Bioconductor packages:
https://secure-web.cisco.com/1WmVHwH9-fASq-_cRqjzutLif_scf2tV0oia7j9wcAlmEkD6LTfPr4hpDabt4CAjYBdFcUrtqQXG2zbH0HakIsmTnqgnHUbghB0qC_b3FyGAhL5dnDBbz1Oh7HlpVwyPV79vgW7FMsg__zeInCyPb_jmFBXAvFRuq-HsBLTAC-Bf2EfgTjG3y38kBOIGnb59DWA6ILkuC-oYK0RJe8h3JvV5RoaeA9FxDk6QokHUT-YeC7hIEd_hURH1dV0dKbJN717qRcgwyT42SNb1evj91AQrxGnEyIR2XFpm28A-qOih3N2V_YsWsZd0wzGApXcZy/https%3A%2F%2Fbioconductor.org%2Fpackages%2F3.7%2Fbioc%2FVIEWS 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,

Llu�s

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