Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-08-01 Thread Roger Bivand
Hi Andreas, Sorry, you are right about 2009. I agree with your decision. We'll see what the response on spdep is before making changes. I anticipate that bptest is resolved but that soigraph isn't. I'll start looking at the option of moving spdep/maptools etc. data sets to a separate package

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:33:21AM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > >>What is the r-cran-maptools issue - I'm also the maintainer of that > >>package? I'm not aware of what might be non-free there; maybe the > >>data files for examples and testing? Nobody has asked me about that. > > > >To e

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-08-01 Thread Roger Bivand
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Roger, On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: Hi Andreas, Given surveillance rather than my (wrong) guess, I'm willing to do what I can - I agree that actual use in epidemiology is worth facilitating. Should the soigraph issu

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Given surveillance rather than my (wrong) guess, I'm willing to do > what I can - I agree that actual use in epidemiology is worth > facilitating. Should the soigraph issue prove problematic, I'll look > at

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Roger Bivand
Hi Andreas, Given surveillance rather than my (wrong) guess, I'm willing to do what I can - I agree that actual use in epidemiology is worth facilitating. Should the soigraph issue prove problematic, I'll look at a work-around. What is the r-cran-maptools issue - I'm also the maintainer of th

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 03:47:34PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > >I'm very astonished that this thread which started with two very simple > >questions exagerated to such a time consuming discussion. > > Most questions are not as simple as they appear, think ontologies. > Mine differs fro

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Roger Bivand
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Roger, I'm very astonished that this thread which started with two very simple questions exagerated to such a time consuming discussion. Most questions are not as simple as they appear, think ontologies. Mine differs from yours. You haven't toød m

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, I'm very astonished that this thread which started with two very simple questions exagerated to such a time consuming discussion. Since I read a lot of frustration in you mail and no chance to clarify things easily I just repeat the main point: inst/README says: File: src/soigraph.c i

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-31 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Roger, On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: Hi Andreas, This isn't a patch to my spdep/inst/README file. No, it's not! :-) I have no knowledge of any debian/copyright file, and cannot take responsibility for that This

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > This isn't a patch to my spdep/inst/README file. No, it's not! :-) > I have no knowledge > of any debian/copyright file, and cannot take responsibility for > that This was never intended - it was just for

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-30 Thread Roger Bivand
Hi Andreas, This isn't a patch to my spdep/inst/README file. I have no knowledge of any debian/copyright file, and cannot take responsibility for that (I don't think installing from source is a problem for non-OSX/Windows users; I do not use Debian systems, and do not know anything about their

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, thanks for your very fast response. I keep our ftpmaster in CC since he finally needs to decide. I attached a proposed diff for the debian/copyright file. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: > > >H

Re: Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-30 Thread Roger Bivand
Hi Andreas, On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Roger, I tried to package spdep for Debian on behalf of the Debian Science team. The Debian ftpmaster had some issues before he will accept the package. Could you please clarify the points below. Thanks a lot and also thanks for providi

Comments from ftpmaster regarding spdep Debian package

2014-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Roger, I tried to package spdep for Debian on behalf of the Debian Science team. The Debian ftpmaster had some issues before he will accept the package. Could you please clarify the points below. Thanks a lot and also thanks for providing spdep as free software Andreas. - Forwarded