[Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 1 December 2012 08:52, Juan Pablo Carbajal <ajuanpi+dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, how do you install a package that is not in Octave-Forge
> nor packaged by the debian group?

Such a package does not exist unless that package is too unstable to
be in Debian, in which case it is a development package, so it is "a
dev thing".

As a general rule, Debian users do not want source distribution, and
pkg.m is by necessity source distribution. Source distribution moves
the burden of building from the distributors to the users; pkg.m
cannot solve the distribution problem to the standards which Debian
requires, only Debian's apt-get can do that.

- Jordi G. H.