Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:56:25PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> I would be interested in finishing the packaging of these, probably >> starting from the easiest one, namely quaternion. > > Alois Hodel, quaternion's author died in January 2009 due to cancer. > I'm not sure how complete the package is, but you shouldn't expect help > from upstream. >> Before doing so, I wanted to know if you have any opinion on the >> relevance of this work and of issues that may arise. I don't really know >> these packages, so please excuse my ignorance. The last release of >> "quaternion" and "tcl-octave" was in 2009, so I don't know they are >> still maintained. "java" seems well maintained, and browsing the web >> there seem to be potentially several users of Debian and >> Debian-derivatives who could benefit from it being packaged. "jhandles" >> is not on Octave-forge: has it been deprecated? > > I don't know anything about the java package, but I guess it will need > some special care. Ok then following your advice and Jordi’s, I’ll start working on octave-java soon. I happen to be familiar with Java. Should we close the other three RFP, since they not seem worth packaging? > Feel free to try any workflow you find appropriate (as long as it's > simple ;) ) I can’t promise it will be simple, but I promise I will do it the “Debian way” :) (i.e. using git-buildpackage) Best, -- Sébastien Villemot CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90 SIP phone: sebastien.villemot@ekiga.net PGP Key: 2069 1DFC C2C9 8C47 9529 84EE 0001 8C22 381A 7594
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