[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#499918: Bug#499918: Bug#499918: Bug#499918: octave-vrml: "freewrl" is not packaged in Debian

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 09:15 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 08:38 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> > Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 22:30 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 06:30:37PM +0200, Dietrich.Brunn at pruftechnik.com wrote:
> > > > Package: octave-vrml
> > > > Version: 1.0.6-2
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > Justification: Policy 3.5
> > > > 
> > > > When calling a vrml function from octave the error
> > > >   sh: freewrl: command not found
> > > >   cmd = freewrl        /tmp/octave_vrml_output.wrl
> > > >   vrml_browse : Can't start browser 'freewrl'. Is it installed?
> > > > occurs. I could not find a package in Debian which contains freewrl.
> > > > 
> > > > Possible solutions:
> > > > - Modify this error message, so it contains a link, where to download 
> > > > freewrl
> > > >   & update Package description.
> > > > - A not so nice, but working replacement for freewrl is whitedune
> > 
> > I've overlooked this one; that might be an option.
> 
> I've asked upstream if whitedune is a suitable replacement for freewrl.
> Let's see what they think.

As octave-vrml is unusable in the current state, I'll upload a version
with freewrl replaced by whitedune over the weekend. As far as I can
tell, whitedune works at least somewhat.

	Thomas