[Pkg-octave-devel] Syncing octave commands [was: Bug#383149:]

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 08:49:56 UTC 2006


Hi, 

Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2006, 04:13 -0400 schrieb John W. Eaton:
>   update-alternatives --config mkoctfile
>   update-alternatives --config octave
>   update-alternatives --config octave-bug
>   update-alternatives --config octave-config
>   update-alternatives --config octave-depends
> 
> BTW, why do I have to run all these commands?  I think it would be
> more friendly if running "update-alternatives --config octave" would
> take care of the rest automatically so they would all stay in sync.

Agreed. For all of them to be synced, we would need to drop the
octave2.X-headers packages and include them in the octave2.X package.

This probably means a recompile of every package (the dependancies
change), so we should do this soon if we want it in etch.

Rafael, your opinion?

	Thomas





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