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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 October 2005 at 19:18, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| * 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.

I followed the setup provided by Paul Kienzle, the upstream maintainer, who
generally had pretty compelling why certain parts were enabled -- or
disabled. The latter case was typically triggered for not-exactly-free code,
or code that wasn't yet at at least a beta stage

Maybe the easiest for Balbir would be to build a local variant, starting from
the Debian package sources and modified whichever subdir he deems suitable?

Cheers, Dirk

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