On 24 February 2018 at 20:27, Adrian Bunk wrote: | 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?
I had someone email me with a libfinance-quote-perl replacement for data gathering for beancounter, but it never happened. I still use beancounter, but deploy a different data insertion routine (based on R). smtm is probably dead. Feel free to remove one or both; they are rather marginal. Cheers, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
