[Pkg-octave-devel] Debian packagers want to know [WAS: Popcon stats for the DOG packages]

[Philip Nienhuis]

Sébastien,

I see by following links from another recent post by you that you are 
about to prepare an Octave io-1.0.17 pkg for Debian.
FYI: I plan to make a new io pkg release (v. 1.0.18) fairly soon; it 
fixes a few bugs and updates to a minor but creepy LibreOffice UNO-Java 
API change (that they didn't tell me about earlier ;-(  )

Philip

Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Philip Nienhuis<pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl>  writes:
>
>> On my Linux boxes (Mandriva), Octave can read/write .xls and .ods w/o any
>> problems using io and java pkgs.
>> For a little while I tried Ubuntu - worked OK there as well.
>
> I can't tell for these distributions. But on Debian, xlsread currently
> fails, even with the java package installed (which itself installs a
> JRE, of course). I am going to investigate it, and report any problem if
> it turns out that it is not Debian specific.
>