[Pkg-octave-devel] Syncing octave commands [was: Bug#383149:]
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Thu Aug 17 11:25:44 UTC 2006
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2006-08-17 10:49]:
> 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?
This is an enormous change and I prefer to discuss further about it. In any
event, the implementation should be done post-etch.
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Rafael
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