Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian
* c. <carlo.defalco@gmail.com> [2012-03-18 11:30]:
> On 16 Mar 2012, at 22:47, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>
> > <...>
> > The following packages have been removed from Debian for different reasons
> > (buggy, integrated into 3.6, unmaintained or abandonned upstream, etc.).
> > If you heartedly disagree with some removals, please tell us.
> >
> > integration
>
> What is the reason for removing this package? Is there anything that needs to be done
> upstream to get it back?
See http://bugs.debian.org/622999
> > The following packages are already in Debian and worked correctly with
> > Octave 3.2, but have not yet been ported to Octave 3.6. We need to know
> > two things: first, which ones of those must absolutely be ported.
> > Second, which ones of those should be removed from Debian.
> >
> > fpl
> > nurbs
> > ocs
>
> I wouldn't say they must "absolutely" get in, but it would be quite useful to not loose
> these, I know a few debian/ubuntu users who use them for their work.
The ocs package is already ported. I tried to port the nurbs package,
but the build failed (this was reported in this mailing list recently
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.devel/6938). I just
saw that a new version of the package is available. I will take a
look later.
> > The following packages have never been in Debian. Please, tell us which
> > ones must absolutely get in.
> >
> > oct2mat
>
> Plese make sure you do _NOT_ include this one.
Ok, thanks.
Rafael
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