Re: Updating to latest Bioconductor release

[zimoun]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 15:26, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> > Just to understand for the next time: when should the commit upgrading
> > the %bioconductor-version be done?  First one or last one?
> >
> > (I am speaking of this kind of commit: 
> > ac6a55e68a6ed675a55abc5339f776613648cb9d)
>
> It doesn’t really matter; usually I do this first, so that for all
> following commits the fallback URL is going to be the correct new URL.
> I haven’t thought much about this, so there may be reasons involving
> “guix time-machine” that are for or against that position.

I will think a bit about that; especially related to #39885.

<http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39885>

> It should, in my opinion, be done together with the other change to the
> version string.

Yes, for sure. :-)


> We can and should rewrite history in the wip-r branch.  So if you have a
> fix you can add a new commit on top of wip-r branch and mark it so that
> someone later can reorder and squash it before the merge into the master
> branch.
>
> To avoid stepping on each other’s toes we should be adding commits to
> the top and then agree on a freeze to reorder and squash those commits
> in the end.

Ok, that's make sense.  Thanks.


All the best,
simon