[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#677672: Bug#677672: update

[Sébastien Villemot]

Dima <dima at minignu.minidns.net> writes:

> Recommending 'gnuplot' is cleaner than 'gnuplot-x11'.
>
> Gnuplot itself poses as dependecy 'gnuplot-nox' or 'gnuplot-x11' and
> either is a possibility to be present on a system.

The problem is that, by default, it is gnuplot-nox which is installed
(since it is the first in the dependency list of gnuplot). And
gnuplot-nox does not work with Octave.

So I am in favor of recommending "gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-qt", and
actually such a change is already committed to the VCS.

Also note that since it is a Recommends and not a Depends, we are not
preventing the user from using gnuplot-nox if he really wants. We are
just giving sane defaults.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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