[Pkg-octave-commit] [octave-io] 06/07: README.Debian: update information about POI and OCT interfaces.

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Author: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>
Date:   Sat Nov 16 15:11:47 2013 +0100

    README.Debian: update information about POI and OCT interfaces.
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 debian/README.Debian |   21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 7c96e8d..904a5ff 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
 Status of spreadsheet support in IO package for Octave
 ======================================================
 
-This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX) and OpenDocument
-(ODS) spreadsheet files from Octave.
+This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX), OpenDocument
+(ODS) and Gnumeric spreadsheet files from Octave.
 
 If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following
 interfaces should already be functional:
 
- * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading and writing XLS files
+ * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading and writing XLS files;
 
  * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading and writing ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC, CSV and any
-   other file format supported by LibreOffice Calc
+   other file format supported by LibreOffice Calc;
+
+ * Apache POI with OOXML (POI): for reading and writing XLS and XLSX files.
 
 Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running
 LibreOffice processes.
 
-Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not
-available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free
-(e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since
-it depends on non-DFSG-free software).
+There is also a built-in pure Octave interface (OCT) for reading (but not
+writing) XLSX, ODS and gnumeric files.
+
+Other interfaces (OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not available in
+Debian.
 
 You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in
 /usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The chk_spreadsheet_support
@@ -27,4 +30,4 @@ function can help you diagnose problems if any.
 More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and
 READ-ODS.html.
 
- -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:29:08 +0200
+ -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>, Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:08:26 +0100

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