[Pkg-octave-devel] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Here is an update on the porting of the Octave-Forge packages for Debian.
Just as a reminder, we are porting the packages in order to make them
work with Octave 3.6.  Our goal is to have a reasonable suite of ported
packages before the freeze of the wheezy distribution, which will happen
in June 2012.

I am writing mainly because we need more feedback from the developers and
users of the OF packages in order to better organize our work. Please,
comment on the points below.

The following packages have been removed from Debian for different reasons
(buggy, integrated into 3.6, unmaintained or abandonned upstream, etc.).
If you heartedly disagree with some removals, please tell us.

    ann
    bioinfo
    ftp
    integration
    irsa
    nlwing2
    outliers
    physicalconstants
    symband
    xraylib

The following packages are already in Debian and worked correctly with
Octave 3.2, but have not yet been ported to Octave 3.6.  We need to know
two things: first, which ones of those must absolutely be ported. 
Second, which ones of those should be removed from Debian.

    audio
    benchmark
    combinatorics
    financial
    fixed
    fpl
    ga
    ident
    informationtheory
    mapping
    multicore
    nnet
    nurbs
    optiminterp
    ocs
    octcdf
    octgpr
    parallel
    pdb
    simp
    sockets
    tsa
    vrml

The following packages have never been in Debian.  Please, tell us which
ones must absolutely get in.

    actuarial
    civil-engineering
    database
    dataframe
    dicom
    engine
    es
    fenv
    fits
    fl-core
    fuzzy-logic-toolkit
    generate_html
    geometry
    gnuplot
    mechanics
    oct2mat
    octclip
    octproj
    odebvp
    openmpi_ext
    pt_br
    quaternion
    queueing
    secs3d
    special-matrix
    spline-gcvspl
    video

Thanks in advance,

All the best,

Rafael