Bug#271364: RFH: scilab -- Matrix-based scientific software package (a la Matlab and Xmath)

[Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with maintaining the scilab package, in particular
fixing the experimental 3.0 package. The most important bug is #260542
(the scicos problem) and #261966. Scilab uses cdbs to build the debian
package and that should not be changed and all the debian specific
changes should be preserved.

The package description is:
 Scilab is a matrix-based scientific software package
 resembling Matlab and Xmath. Scilab contains hundreds of
 built-in mathematical functions, rich  data structures
 (including polynomials, rationals,linear systems, lists,
 etc...) and comes with a number of specific toolboxes for
 control, signal processing, ...