reassign 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