Hi Bálint, On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:45:07PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2016-11-05 22:17 GMT+01:00 Joost van Baal-Ilić > <joostvb-debian-bugs-20161105-0@mdcc.cx>: > > > > I am no longer interested in maintaining dimbl. Upstream (Maarten van Gompel) > > feels shipping dimbl with Debian is of very limited use: people interested in > > dimbl likely are better served always using the very latest version of it. > > > > I'll request for removal of dimbl from unstable and testing, soonish. > > I suggest not requesting the removal. The package was practically > unmaintained in Debian for years (last upload: 2013-09-17) while upstream > is not exactly fast moving (last release was in January). > Please delay the removal request by at least 6 months to let others step > up as maintainers. > > I may fix the RC bug with a new upstream during the freeze after all > packages under my name are ready for Stretch. Great, consider this package yours. Thanks a lot, Bye, Joost > Joost wrote: > > Unless someone else steps up RSN, that is. Be aware there is serious/RC/FTBFS > > Bug #833905 open (which is relatively easy to fix).) > > > > (From the description: The Dimbl Distributed Memory Based Learner is a wrapper > > around the k-nearest neighbor classifier in TiMBL, offering parallel > > classification on multi-CPU machines. Dimbl splits the original training set, > > builds separate TiMBL classifiers per training subset, and merges their > > nearest-neighbor sets per classified instance. If you do scientific research > > in Natural Language Processing using the Memory-Based Learning technique, Dimbl > > will likely be of use to you.)
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