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[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#403591: marked as done (octave2.1-forge: Please do not use /usr/bin/mex in the future)

Your message dated Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:32:11 +0100
with message-id <20070102073211.GA23220@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
and subject line closing mex naming conflict bug
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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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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Hi Frank!

I close this bug, mex disappears upstream in octave, so I guess mex
canstay mex for Polish users.

Best wishes

Norbert

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