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[Bioc-devel] mygene problems reported by the "Build/check report" for BioC 3.1

2 messages · Dan Tenenbaum

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Be really careful when you do this. Whenever you make a change that you want to propagate to our repositories (and to be available via biocLite()) you need to increase its version number. You didn't actually do that in devel (you want to change the value of the Version field in DESCRIPTION to 1.4.1).

However, version numbers need to be different in release and devel, see http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/version-numbering/

So, if you had bumped the version number in devel and then done svn merge as above, and then committed, you would have copied the wrong version number into release which would really mess things up. Luckily you didn't do that. 

Since your change was relatively simple and just affected one file, I would simply make the change manually in release. Or if that file has no other differences between release and devel, just copy the file (using cp) from devel/R to release/R. Then bump the version in release (from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1).

And don't forget to bump the version in devel as well. Note that sometime in June you bumped the version from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0, which you should not do. As mentioned at the link above, the y in the x.y.z version number must always be even in release and odd in devel. Also, version numbers can't go down, so you need to bump the version in devel to 1.5.0.

Dan
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----- Original Message -----
Oops, that should say 1.5.0, see below.
Dan