The https://bioc-release.r-universe.dev repository syncs from your bioc/packages.json like so:

yml <- yaml::read_yaml("https://bioconductor.org/config.yaml")
registry_url <- sprintf('https://bioconductor.org/packages/json/%s/bioc/packages.json', yml$release_version)
bioc <- jsonlite::read_json(registry_url)

However the branches from this file do not always correspond on what we find on the website. Therefore we may end up with different versions, which is not good.

For example according to this file, package sangeranalyseR is to be downloaded from the devel branch:

bioc$sangeranalyseR$git_branch
## [1] "devel"

So that is the version we get in https://bioc-release.r-universe.dev/sangeranalyseR, which is at the time of writing version 1.21.1. However if we look at the bioc website, we see a different version number namely 1.19.0.

If we look closer, there are many more packages like this. Following on the code above:

table(sapply(bioc, function(x){ifelse(length(x$git_branch), x$git_branch ,'none')}))
##
##       devel         none RELEASE_3_22 
##         114           24         2223

So what is the correct information? Should I better ignore the git_branch field from the registry and unconditionally use RELEASE_3_22 branch for all packages?