On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 04:31:14PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > rpy was abandonded upstream maybe a decade ago, maybe longer. It needs hard > rebuilds for each new R version -- here R 3.4.4 -- and at some point that > just ceased to be useful. > > There is rpy2 which is current and maintained for python 3. We also forked > off the last version of rpy2 that can be build with python 2.7 as another > software suite needed that. > > Please switch to rpy2.
Ok. That sounds like src:rpy should be removed from debian. python-rpy does not have any reverse dependencies, so that's possible. Please send the following commands to control@b.d.o if you agree: retitle 896283 RM: rpy -- ROM; use rpy2 severity 896283 normal reassign 896283 ftp.debian.org Helmut
