[Pkg-octave-devel] Abandoning statdataml and releated packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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'