[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] Status of r-cran-psy?

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:03:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I realised that the r-cran-psy package has not changed since etch and is
> featuring a nasty long standing bug #400726 for nearly three years.  I
> guess the fact that upstream seems to be dead (no new version since June
> 2005[1]) has prevented your from updating the package.  If you ask me
> you should try to polish the package a bit (for instance adding Homepage
> fields etc.) and considering the good experiences I made with using cdbs
> and /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk.

Hi all,

in addition to this, I would like to remind the existence of a repository of
autobuilt R packages. It was announced by Dirk Eddelbuettel on multiple mailing
lists this year:

http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/19035.40101.199706.453815@ron.nulle.part

With this repository available, I think that it does not bring much added value
anymore to package leaf CRAN packages that do not need compilation or difficult
build-dependancies, and that are not a dependancy of other packages.

If r-cran-psy is one of them, I think that it would not be too impolite to our
users to drop it if we do not have the manpower to keep it.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan