[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#336267: octave-forge: Extra packages not installed ?

[Balbir Thomas]

Package: octave-forge
Version: 2004.11.16-7
Severity: normal



Hi,

The extra packages of octave-forge are not installed . I 
was in particular looking for tk_octave. I couldn't find
a note in /usr/share/doc/octave-forge explaining why the
package maintainer decided to drop the extra packages.

Kindly include extra packages ( that are "free" ) and
put a note in the debian README file for octave-forge,
listing the packages being dropped for whatever reason.
Hopefully you would agree the only pertinent reasons may
be violation of DFSG or some sought of dependency problem.

b thomas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages octave-forge depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-11        Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcln3                  1.1.9-1         Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libg2c0                  1:3.3.5-13      Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-13      GCC support library
ii  libginac1.3              1.3.0-2         The GiNaC framework (runtime libra
ii  libgmp3                  4.1.4-6         Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgsl0                  1.6-2           GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -- li
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 [ 1.6.2-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5              5.4-4           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5                2003.1-1        Calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5             5.0-10          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-13      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  octave2.1                2.1.69-1        GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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