On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 06:11:46AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 21 November 2017 at 10:49, Ivan Rossi wrote:
> | Package: libfinance-yahooquote-perl
> | Version: 0.25
> | Severity: grave
> | Justification: renders package unusable
> |
> | Dear Maintainer,
> |
> | yahooquote (and smtm) stopped working. It seems that yahoo does not allow
> queries anymore.
>
> That is the backend. Yahoo! stopped supporting this.
>
> See several online discussions.
>
> I think the only answer is to withdraw libfinance-yahooquote-perl from CRAN.
Should libfinance-yahooquote-perl and the reverse dependencies
beancounter and smtm be removed from unstable/stable/oldstable,
or is there any use left for any of these packages?
> Dirk
Thanks
Adrian
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