retitle 996033 RM: its -- ROM: retired upstream five years ago quit
Setting a better / correct title. Dirk On 18 November 2021 at 10:06, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | 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: | | | | 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/ | | | | -- | | https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | | -- | https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
