[R-pkg-team] Bug#1055606: RM: r-cran-rgdal -- ROM; Unmaintained upstream, fails with gdal in experimental leading to RC bug once this migrates to unstable

[Andreas Tille]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: r-cran-rgdal at packages.debian.org, 1050223 at bugs.debian.org, 1055589 at bugs.debian.org, 1049438 at bugs.debian.org, debian-r at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:r-cran-rgdal

Hi,

as explained by upstream as response in our bug report[1] r-cran-rgdal
is not supported upstream any more.  In bug #1055589 a conflict to the
upcoming GDAL 3.8.0 is stated.  So for the moment r-cran-rgdal is
blocking the GDAL migration from experimental to unstable and even if
this problem is ignored bug #1055589 will become RC with no hope to get
it fixed.

For the moment there is a single reference inside the package pool to
this package.  R-cran-rgdal is suggested by r-cran-satellite which is
due to the automatic generation of dependencies by dh-r.  I'd prefer to
wait until r-cran-rgdal is removed and than regenerate the
r-cran-satellite to get this dependency fixed over fiddling around
manually with the control file.

So I consider it save to remove r-cran-rgdal from unstable.

Kind regards and thanks for your work as ftpmaster
    Andreas.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1049438#31