retitle 896283 RM: rpy -- ROM; use rpy2 severity 896283 normal reassign 896283 ftp.debian.org thanks
On 21 April 2018 at 07:42, Helmut Grohne wrote: | 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 Yes, it is time for this. Doing so with this mail. Dirk | Helmut -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
