Thanks, this is very helpful.  In general, following our release paradigm,
I see no reason to ever want to update bsseqData for Bioconductor 2.12 -
since it is a data package chances are small for finding a critical bug.

Best,
Kasper


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> It's simpler than that. Just make the change you need to make.
> The package will fail to pass the build/check in release so it
> won't propagate.
>
> That means that whatever version of bsseqData is currently in
> BioC 2.12 will remain forever i.e. you won't be able to update
> it. Hope that's OK with you.
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
>
> On 07/10/2013 09:44 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
>> <kasperdanielhansen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have just changed the class definition for a core class in bsseq.  A
>>> supporting experiment data package, bsseqData, contains two objects of
>>> this
>>> core class and now it needs to be updated (specifically because the
>>> example() contains a command which prints the object and this printing
>>> now
>>> fails).
>>>
>>> I can update the bsseqData package, but do I mess with earlier releases
>>> when I do this? I am uncertain because the /data is stored in another
>>> repository. How should I handle this?
>>>
>>>
>> The experiment data repository does not branch, so you could do something
>> like:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION:
>> Imports: BiocInstaller
>>
>> NAMESPACE:
>> import(BiocInstaller)
>>
>> Code:
>>
>> if (BiocInstaller:::BIOC_VERSION == "2.12")
>>     # do things the old way
>> else
>>    # do things the new way
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>  Best,
>>> Kasper
>>>
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