--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/env r
+## DOC: cran2deb db_release
+## DOC: make note of a substantial update of the database. causes all packages to be marked for ebuild.
+## DOC:
+
+suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(cran2deb))
+
+con <- db_start()
+notice('old db version:',db_cur_version(con))
+db_stop(con,TRUE)
+con <- db_start()
+notice('new db version:',db_cur_version(con))
+db_stop(con)