[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.1 and octave2.9 in unstable

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Tue Nov 15 17:27:46 UTC 2005


* John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-11-15 10:55]:

> On 15-Nov-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> | > Im not sure what the effects of disabling the glpk library...but if it 
> | > is something user can live with temporarily that might be the best 
> | > choice.  Especially considering the uncertainties in the package at
> | > this time(in Debian and upstream).
> 
> It's important for me to have glpk included in Octave.  If you drop
> glpk, then the QP solver will also fail to work.  If the QP solver
> fails, then the SQP solver will also fail.  So it affects more than
> just glpk.

Note taken.

> | I already considered forking the package and producing a version of glpk
> | exclusively for Octave in Debian.  The problem with this solution is that
> | we will have the burden of synchronizing with the upstream sources and
> | maintaining the SOVERSION number (this may be a painful task when one is
> | not involved in the upstream development).
> 
> It seems to me that the simplest and safest thing would be to bump the
> soversion each time you update the sources from upstream.

So, you are suggesting that we effectively fork the glpk package for our own
use.  Your suggestion above is quite sensible, in particular because this
new package will only be useful for Octave.  I will take a look at this when
time permits.

-- 
Rafael



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