[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] Remove octave-plplot (for now)

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Matthias Klose has made a change to the plplot package in Ubuntu which 
prevents the building of the Octave binding for PLplot.  In sum, this 
means the removal of the octave-plplot package.  This is a radical way of 
fixing Bug#73639, which is blocking the Octave 3.6 -> 3.8 transition. 
Matthias patch can be found in :

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736392#50

I am Cc:ing this message to Andrew Ross, who is an upstream developer of 
PLplot and also the maintainer of the Debian package.  I hope that he 
will agree with this change and that he or another DD will uploads a new 
version of the plplot package.  We could reintroduce octave-plplot in the 
future, when the situation will become stable again.

Best,

Rafael