[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#460812: octave-doc, octave-info, etc. should be actual packages
Package: octave
Version: 1:2.9.19-2
Severity: normal
The "octave" package is a virtual package, which will automatically
install the most recent version of octave. That is convenient.
However, there is no corresponding way to automatically install the
most recent version of the documentation. Instead, I find myself with
a current version of octave but an outdated version of its
documentation. It would be nice if these were empty packages:
octave-doc
octave-info
octave-htmldoc
octave-emacsen
Incidentally, I suggest you rewrite the Description something like this:
This package is an empty 'virtual' package whose sole purpose is to
install the current Octave version from the 2.1 branch (the
recommended testing branch) Once you have the octave2.1 package
installed, you can remove this package. Or, you can leave it
installed, and "apt-get dist-upgrade" will automatically replace it
with the next branch of octave when it becomes available.
- Jim Van Zandt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii octave2.9 1:2.9.19-2 GNU Octave language for numerical
octave recommends no packages.
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