Regarding r-cran-rcppmlpack
Hi Dirk,
The new release of r-cran-genieclust seems to need r-cran-rcppmlpack (as seen here[1]) which is still unpackaged.
Andreas did initial packaging of r-cran-rcppmlpack[2] (this has not yet been uploaded) - it builds and works good, however I quickly realised that it uses an "embedded" copy of mlpack library which is bad for obvious reasons.
I tried repacking it, but then it seems that the embedded MLpack is several versions behind the mlpack we have in Debian.
And then, I saw that you have a fork of r-cran-rcppmlpack here[3] however the readme states that it is still experimental so I'm not sure if I should package this and upload for unstable.
Or with this if genieclust can even work for that matter. I'm not sure if uploading the mlpack1 compatible package with embedded copy would be a good idea. (I don't feel so)
Since you seem to be (mplack-3-compatible) r-cran-rcppmlpack's primary author, I'd really appreciate your advice on this - as to what do you think about its compatibility and feasibility to enter
unstable and therefore testing.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-genieclust/-/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L38
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-rcppmlpack
[3]: https://github.com/rcppmlpack/rcppmlpack2
Nilesh
Reply to: