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Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
Severity: wishlist
see http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
while not an X application, would still be nice to have the config files in the same location
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages octave3.0 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 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-5 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libfftw3-3 3.1.2-3.1 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libgfortran3 4.3.2-1 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii libglpk0 4.29-2 linear programming kit with intege
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+20080830-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libqhull5 2003.1-2 Calculate convex hulls and related
ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libsuitesparse-3.1.0 3.1.0-3 collection of libraries for comput
ii texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line i
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii gnuplot 4.2.2-1.2 A command-line driven interactive
ii libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
pn octave3.0-doc <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-emacsen <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-headers <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-htmldoc <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-info <none> (no description available)
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:19:14PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:08:24PM +0100, Johan Henriksson wrote:
> > Package: octave3.0
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> >
> > see http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> >
> > while not an X application, would still be nice to have the config files in the same location
>
> I actually thought about closing this bug report without any
> explanation. That would perfectly mirror your bug report, as you give no
> indication whatsoever for why we should change this.
>
> Now, this xdg specification is a perfect example of standards without
> caring for existing stuff, not to mention systems that don't have that
> kind of directory layout.
>
> In order to implement this specification, Octave would need to parse 5
> environment variables (you are aware that Octave works on Mac, Solaris
> and Windows, right)? What directories should be chosen for Windows?
>
> So, if you want this, ask on Octave's upstream list. This is definitely
> nothing we will do in Debian.
>
> Thomas
Not a bug in Debian. This is something upstream has to decide and
implement. In fact, I don't think any of this stuff should be
done in distributions.
=> closing.
Thomas
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