reassign 996033 ftp.debian.org
quit
I must have been absent-minded when I filed this as I got the Subject: right
but use the package itself instead of ftp.debian.org. My bad!
Dirk
On 10 October 2021 at 12:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| Severity: normal
| Package: its
|
| The its package was retired from CRAN five years ago [1] upon the request of
| its original author (who is a friend), but I kept it in Debian because it was
| generally useful. However, as time and packaging standards move on (while the
| package remains frozen) it is getting a little further away from best
| practices. So in sum, it is time to remove it from Debian. Its sources will
| remain available at CRAN in its archive/ location [2].
|
| It has no reverse dependencies apart from a meta package that can be updated
| easily.
|
| Dirk
|
| [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/its/index.html
| [2] https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/its/
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