On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 06:11:46AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 21 November 2017 at 10:49, Ivan Rossi wrote: > | Package: libfinance-yahooquote-perl > | Version: 0.25 > | Severity: grave > | Justification: renders package unusable > | > | Dear Maintainer, > | > | yahooquote (and smtm) stopped working. It seems that yahoo does not allow > queries anymore. > > That is the backend. Yahoo! stopped supporting this. > > See several online discussions. > > I think the only answer is to withdraw libfinance-yahooquote-perl from CRAN.
Should libfinance-yahooquote-perl and the reverse dependencies beancounter and smtm be removed from unstable/stable/oldstable, or is there any use left for any of these packages? > Dirk Thanks Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed