Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Abandoning statdataml and releated packages
On 29 September 2005 at 10:54, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| 1) Both r-cran-statdataml and r-cran-xml have been made available by the
| Debian BioCondutor Group (http://pkg-bioc.alioth.debian.org/). BTW,
| the versions present in their apt-getable repository
| (http://public.pzr.uni-rostock.de/~moeller/mirror/) are more recent
| than those packaged by me.
That archive is really not public as the Debian BioConductor Group [ old
name, now it is really 'Debian group trying to build infrastructure to
package all of CRAN and BioConductor inside or outside Debian' ] never made a
release or announcement. We're simply not ready.
For R, if it isn't packaged, just recommended install.packages() (as root,
and mention that need for appropriate -dev packages).
| Under all this circumstances, I am strongly inclined to abandon the
| StatDataML packages in Debian. I may just orphan them or simply file a
| bug report against ftp.debian.org requesting their exclusion from the
| archive. I would do the same with r-cran-xml and point the users to the
| Debian-BioC archive.
You can start by orphaning them. I've found that removal bug reports often
"just sit there" for ages.
Dirk
--
Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty.
-- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics'
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