Package: wnpp Severity: normal
Some time ago I packaged StatDataML (http://www.omegahat.org/StatDataML/) for Debian hoping that it would be a solution for communicating data between Octave and R. The current version of the statdataml package (1.0.9) still has me as maintainer, although I already put the sources in the SVN repository of the Debain Octave Group (http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org). In the meanwhile, I started using exclusively HDF5 for transferring data between Octave and R and I think this is a superior approach, not to mention the fact that I am now also able to use Perl to read/write the data files. The statdataml source package generates two binary packages: octave-statdataml and r-cran-statdataml. This last one depends on r-cran-xml, which I also packaged for Debian. Now, the scoops: 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. 2) The newest upstream version of StatDataML 1.0-10 (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/StatDataML.html) even does not contain the Octave part which was present in 1.0-9. 3) The Octave part of StatDataML 1.0-9 even does work correctly with g++ 4.0. I do not know whether the problems comes really from octave 2.1.71, from libxml2 in sid, from the compiler, or from a combination of all those. I do not have the time/interest in debugging this problem. 4) A bug report has been recently filed against r-cran-xml (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330622). This is an upstream problem and I even do not know whether the most recent upstream version of the fixes it. (Again, my time/interest on this is very scarce). Under all this circumstances, I am abandoning the StatDataML packages as well as r-cran-xml. This orphaning bug report against wnpp is the first step before asking for removal of the packages from the FTP archive. -- Rafael -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
