Bug#491156: [RKI-Spam-Verdacht]ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>

* Package name    : postgresql-8.3-plr
  Version         : 8.3.0.6
  Upstream Author : Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
* URL             : http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R
 R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics,
 providing a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and
 nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification,
 clustering, and so on).
 .
 PostgreSQL is an open source SQL database server.
 .
 This package provides a procedural language interface to R from
 PostgreSQL 8.3. Procedural languages are used to write functions
 which can be called in database queries.

This package was removed from Debian (see #228074, which can not be
reopened because it is archived).  The reason that it is RC buggy) is
void because #461995 took me 1 Minute to fix (well, you can blame me
for not having this done before the removal - the package was just not
on my focus).  The other reason "few users" is probably right considering
popcon, but this as the only reason to remove a package is not enough.
I think upgradebility from Etch to Lenny is a much higher value.
So I ask for reintroducing this package quickly.

I prepared lintian clean packages of the latest version.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash