[Pkg-octave-devel] Please upload my qtoctave packaging to Alioth

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Hi.

I'm having some issues handling Alioth's svn, mostly network problems
from my end (my school's network sucks). Thus, I'm putting up in my
webspace my packaging of QtOctave, which is already pending approval
in the NEW queue thanks to the help of Vincent Fourmond
<fourmond at debian.org>, my sponsor. I would like it if someone could
upload it for me:

    http://www.cimat.mx/~jordi/debian/qtoctave.tar.gz

There were some issues since upstream was distributing Octave's
documentation in HTML form only, and there was some consensus in
d-devel that this constituted a breach of the terms of the GPL.
Anyways, Debian doesn't need those documents in an extra package; I
set QtOctave Recommends: to octave2.9-htmldoc. Thus, the .orig.tar.gz
had to be DFSGed.

QtOctave right now is a tad unstable, or at least from my end it seems
so. It segfaults if one closes all the windows. I tried to find where
the problem was, but I didn't get very far. Admittedly, I didn't
attempt to use a debugger.

I'm wondering if there's a better way to interface with Octave than
having to do everything via the interpreter. Seems one should be able
to examine and modify the contents of matrices in memory without
having to go directly or indirectly through the interpreter. I guess
this probably requires changes in Octave itself; probably changes
analogous to what would be necessary for having a real debugger for
Octave.

Anyways, I'm rambling.

Cheers,
- Jordi G. H.