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- Subject: octave2.1-forge: Please do not use /usr/bin/mex in the future
- From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:55:06 +0100
- Message-id: <86hcvta5qd.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
Package: octave2.1-forge, texlive-lang-polish Severity: wishlist Look at this, a fortunate coincidence: $ findpkg bin/mex oldstable usr/bin/mex math/octave-forge stable usr/bin/mex math/octave-forge testing usr/bin/mex tex/texlive-lang-polish usr/bin/mex2.1 math/octave2.1-forge unstable usr/bin/mex tex/texlive-lang-polish usr/bin/mex2.1 math/octave2.1-forge Although the TeX incarnateion of the mex binary (actually a symlink) has been introduced into Debian only recently, it has been in use in the TeX community for years. The same is probably true for Matlab/Octave's mex, so it's very fortunate that we do not need to argue who should give up the name, or do it both. TeXlive upstream has recently discussed this and decided to keep things unchanged, you can read the thread starting at http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2006-December/011670.html This bug report is mainly to inform you about the problem; it doesn't mean that we, the Debian TeX maintainers, claim to have stronger rights on the name. Regards, Frank P.S. in Ubuntu ($whatever_strange_animal) there's a file conflict between the packages... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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- Cc: frank@kuesterei.ch
- Subject: closing mex naming conflict bug
- From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:32:11 +0100
- Message-id: <20070102073211.GA23220@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi Frank! I close this bug, mex disappears upstream in octave, so I guess mex canstay mex for Polish users. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SNITTERBY (n.) Someone who pins snitters (q.v.) on to snitterfields (q.v.) and is also suspected of being responsible for the extinction of virginstows (q.v.) --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
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