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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Balbir Thomas <thomas.1037 at osu.edu> [2005-10-28 21:58]:

> 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.

I think you are right, but I do not know exactly what to answer.  The
octave-forge package is being currently maintained in a collective
project hosted at Alioth (The Debian Octave Group,
http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org).  I do not know if any of the DOC
members can explain why tk_octave (and other components) is not included
in the package.  Perhaps Dirk can enlighten us on the issue.

-- 
Rafael