Hi, 2016-11-05 22:17 GMT+01:00 Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-debian-bugs-2016110...@mdcc.cx>: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I am no longer interested in maintaining dimbl. Upstream (Maarten van Gompel) > feels shipping dimbl with Debian is of very limited use: people interested in > dimbl likely are better served always using the very latest version of it. > > I'll request for removal of dimbl from unstable and testing, soonish.
I suggest not requesting the removal. The package was practically unmaintained in Debian for years (last upload: 2013-09-17) while upstream is not exactly fast moving (last release was in January). Please delay the removal request by at least 6 months to let others step up as maintainers. I may fix the RC bug with a new upstream during the freeze after all packages under my name are ready for Stretch. Cheers, Balint > > Unless someone else steps up RSN, that is. Be aware there is serious/RC/FTBFS > Bug #833905 open (which is relatively easy to fix).) > > (From the description: The Dimbl Distributed Memory Based Learner is a wrapper > around the k-nearest neighbor classifier in TiMBL, offering parallel > classification on multi-CPU machines. Dimbl splits the original training set, > builds separate TiMBL classifiers per training subset, and merges their > nearest-neighbor sets per classified instance. If you do scientific research > in Natural Language Processing using the Memory-Based Learning technique, > Dimbl > will likely be of use to you.) > > Bye, > > Joost >
