[R] Problem installing SparseM on Debian stable

[Felix Salfner]

I have troubles installing the "SparseM" package on my Debian stable 
Linux system.

Debian's version of R is:
platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386
os       linux-gnu
system   i386, linux-gnu
status
major    1
minor    5.1
year     2002
month    06
day      17
language R


This is the installation output:

 > R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/ SparseM_0.36.tar.gz
* Installing *source* package 'SparseM' ...
** libs
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c bckslv.f -o bckslv.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c chol.f -o chol.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c cholesky.f -o cholesky.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c csr.f -o csr.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c extract.f -o extract.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include   -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 
-c iohb.c -o iohb.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include   -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 
-c readwrite.c -o readwrite.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c sparskit.f -o sparskit.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c subscr.f -o subscr.o
gcc -shared  -o SparseM.so bckslv.o chol.o cholesky.o csr.o extract.o 
iohb.o readwrite.o sparskit.o
subscr.o   -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4 -lreadline -ldl 
-lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
** R
** data
** demo
** inst
** save image
Loading required package: methods
[1] TRUE
[1] "matrix.csr"
Error in conformMethod(signature, mnames, fnames) :
        Formal arguments omitted in the method definition cannot be in 
the signature: object
Execution halted
ERROR: execution of package source for 'SparseM' failed

The same happens if I try to install it from within R by calling 
install.packages("SparseM").

Could anybody help me to get SparseM running?

Thanks in advance
Felix