Bug#415780: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#415780: octave2.1: Please upgrade gnuplot dependency from suggests: to recommends:

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Sun Apr 15 11:19:34 UTC 2007


* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2007-03-22 21:49]:

> * Geraint Paul Bevan <g.bevan at eng.gla.ac.uk> [2007-03-22 15:56]:
> 
> > I am only lurking and don't have a particularly strong opinion about
> > this, but "recommends" seems to make more sense to me.
> > 
> > Even running a batch job from a terminal it is still usually desirable
> > for the plot function to work correctly. For example, the following
> > should create a file "sin.ps" whether or not it is executed from a
> > graphics-capable terminal:
> > 
> > echo "t=[0:0.1:10]'; x=sin(t); plot(t,x); print -depsc2 \"sin.ps\""\
> > | octave
> 
> Thanks for your opinion.  Let us collect some more votes before deciding to
> change the Suggests to Recommends.

It seems that Recommends won.  I will change this in SVN.
 
-- 
Rafael




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