[Pkg-octave-devel] Open ToDos for Wheezy

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Paul Dreik <slask at pauldreik.se> [2012-06-20 09:36]:

> I know there was a discussion a while ago about which packages were
> popular/good enough/releaseable to be in wheezy, and octave sockets was
> not one of them. Is there any chance the sockets package can make it?
> 
> I am running Debian testing with 3.6.2 and installation with
> pkg -forge install sockets
> ran without problems and the package works as expected (running the
> example code I posted at
> http://pauldreik.blogspot.se/2009/04/octave-sockets-example.html). The
> source seems to not need modifications for being packaged, the "only"
> work is to package it and of course maintain it which I respect if it is
> not your top priority compared to octave itself or other packages.
> 
> The reason I prefer seeing it debian packaged rather than installing it
> manually is that I think installing through a package manager is
> superior to manual install. It is signed by the debian archive key and
> possible to have as a dependency for other packages. (I have private
> packages which depend on sockets)

Thanks for your suggestion. Sockets was packaged in the past, but has
been removed from Debian [1]. The removal was required by Thomas Weber
[2], who first mentioned it in this mailing list some months ago [3].  
The reason for the removal is that "[sockets] hasn't seen any real
upstream development for at least two years."

Rafael

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667305#15
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666960
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2012-March/008798.html


> 
> Paul
> 
> On 2012-06-19 20:08, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > are we still missing something important? I'm not too happy about
> > #675509 (FLTK problem), but it's difficult to reproduce.
> > 
> > 	Thomas
> > 
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Rafael