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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* 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.
 
-- 
Rafael