[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging octplot

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 December 2005 at 18:16, Rafa Rodriguez Galvan wrote:
| OK, as you can see in svn, I've the packaged octplot using CBDS!

Sounds like nice work, congratulations!

| So, I've included in debian/control an explicit dependency on 
| octave-forge, and recommended (instead of depended on) 
| "gs-gpl | gs-esp".

There is a virtual package postscript-preview:
  postscript-preview      a preprocessor that creates Postscript output
according to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.txt.gz
on my testing box.

| W: octplot: extra-license-file
| usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i486-pc-linux-gnu/fonts/copying
| --
| 
| This file contains another copy of GPL v2. What should I do? 
| May I remove this file? Should I suggest the upstream developer
| he to remove it?

Replace the file with a softlink back to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
if it is actually used; otherwise just delete it as the debian/copyright
should reference the GPL already.

Dirk

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