[R-pkg-team] Bug#1076195: RM: r-cran-maptools -- ROM; Abandoned by upstream

[Michael R. Crusoe]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: r-cran-maptools at packages.debian.org, debian-r at lists.debian.org, r-pkg-team at alioth-lists.debian.net, crusoe at debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:r-cran-maptools

Dear FTP team,

Please remove the source package r-cran-maptools. Since 2023-10-16 the upstream maintainer has abandoned it, with the message "Consider using 'sf' or 'terra' instead". Both of those are already packaged for Debian

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/maptools/index.html

I checked dak and there are no reverse-dependencies. Thank you!

$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org "dak rm --rdep-check --no-action r-cran-maptools"
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

r-cran-maptools | 1:1.1-8+dfsg-1 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, ppc64el, s390x
r-cran-maptools | 1:1.1-8+dfsg-1+b1 | riscv64

Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers <r-pkg-team at alioth-lists.debian.net>

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

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