[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#448498: please provide a virtual package for octave-headers

[Thomas Weber]

Am Samstag, den 12.01.2008, 18:18 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2007-12-21 14:23]:
> 
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-12-21 11:41]:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Am Montag, den 29.10.2007, 15:04 +0100 schrieb Soeren Sonnenburg:
> > > > Package: octave3.0
> > > > Version: 2.9.15-1
> > > > Severity: wishlist
> > > > 
> > > > it would be nice to have a package octave-headers that pulls in
> > > > octave2.9-headers (or the most current version corresponding to the
> > > >         octave package)
> > > 
> > > This went undiscussed. Opinions?
> > 
> > This is a god idea and should not be too complicated to implement.
> 
> I sort of changed my mind about this issue.  

I agree. It's nice for end users to have one simple octave package
pulling everything else, but if developers start using it, we get all
sort of transition troubles.

	Thomas