[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#400071: octaviz: Examples fail to run

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 
[taking this to the list]
								
Am Donnerstag, den 23.11.2006, 20:37 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2006-11-23 19:35]:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 23.11.2006, 18:52 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > > Package: octaviz
> > > Version: 0.4.5-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: confirmed
> > 
> > Is this confirmed by you, Rafael?
> 
> Yes, I took the liberty to add this tag.  I confirmed the bug with octaviz
> 0.4.5-3 and libvtk5 5.0.2-4.  

Hey, you cheated :). Your error message surely looked different than
Christian's.

> I thought it was a problem recently introduced, but then I later
> noticed that the vtkdata package was lacking in in my system.  After
> installing it, the examples work, of course.

I submitted a patch to the vtkGetDataRoot.m function to upstream two
weeks ago; this should take care of missing vtkdata packages in the
future.


> I will leave this bug report open to remind us to add a README.Debian file
> to the package explaining that vtkdata is necessary for running the
> examples.  Could you please take care of this, Thomas?

Hmm, we could bump vktdata's "suggests" to "recommends" instead. And/or
apply the attached patch. This might be easier than pointing people to
READMEs.

	Thomas
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