[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#500783: marked as done (octave-nan: the nan package should not be autoloaded)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #500783,
regarding octave-nan: the nan package should not be autoloaded
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Package: octave-nan
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: normal
The nan package overloads many functions, which means it should not be
autoloaded. It currently is, which I think is wrong.
Mabe the same is true of other packages as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages octave-nan depends on:
ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfftw3-3 3.1.2-3.1 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libgfortran3 4.3.1-9 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5)
ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1 library of linear algebra routines
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii octave3.0 1:3.0.1-6lenny1 GNU Octave language for numerical
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
octave-nan recommends no packages.
octave-nan suggests no packages.
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:49:14PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> >My current opinion is that an octave add-on package should _*always_*
> >autoload its functions. Packages in Debian should work out of the box after
> >installation. If the user do not want the overload, she just does "apt-get
> >remove octave-nan". Easy, simple, period.
>
> There is wisodm in these words :)
Closing after discussion.
Thomas
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