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

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 December 2012 01:55, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Geometry is not in stable (I know, when Squeeze was release that
> package didn't exist). But mechanics package is not in any of the
> Debian distributions.
>
> Debian can't package all of them. It's great they can package the most
> important ones, but if Agora works out as planned, there's just no way
> they can deal with all packages.
>
> Carnë

There are also third party packages that for their specificity, lack
of man power, or whatever are not even in Octave-Forge
(https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/ailab/people/carbajal/DRD/download.html).
This packages when they need to compile (not in that version of the
example I gave before, but soon) will fail to install as well.

@Rafael: Unless somebody has a better idea then mkoctfile.m should
also be in -dev. We should check if that breaks anything else. This
however implies a certain burden in documenting Octave for Debian
only... which I would try to avoid, but well, there is already a
README.Debian we could use that.

@Sébastien: The explanation in the file looks good. Thanks.