[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#833940: Bug#833940: octave-nan includes its own version of libsvm -- not dynamically linked to libsvm

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> [2016-08-10 16:39]:

> Package: octave-nan
> Version: 3.0.2-1
>
> The octave-nan package includes the matlab libsvm toolbox which is an 
> interface to the C++ library libsvm [1].  libsvm is already package in 
> Debian [2] but the octave-nan package seems statically linked with the 
> outdated version of libsvm that is distributed with the octave nan 
> package.
>
> [1] https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/ 
> [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/libsvm3

Thanks for the suggestion.  I am preparing right now a new version of 
the package that will fix this bug [1].

The patch that I introduced is kind of a hack and it would be good if the 
upstream author could cope with the issue in a proper way.  I will 
eventually fill a bug report against the Octave-Forge package nan.

Rafael

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave-nan.git/commit/?id=332a9ffe9338d68c98709bb5142c662800fc1066