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

Juan Pablo Carbajal carbajal at ifi.uzh.ch
Sat Mar 17 16:11:06 UTC 2012


2012/3/17 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>:
> On 16 March 2012 21:47, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I don't know much about this packages but here's what I can say about some:
>
> * audio - probably good to package. I remember users asking about it
> on the mailing list about it so people do use it
>
> * fixed - wait for the next release to package this one. The current
> release does not work under 3.6 but jwe and Jordi have fixed it and
> are just solving some small issues with it to make a new release. The
> development version already  installs without problems so shouldn't
> take much longer
>
>> The following packages have never been in Debian.  Please, tell us which
>> ones must absolutely get in.
>
> I also don't know much about this packages but here's the one that I
> do know about:
>
> * generate_html - don't port this one. I believe this only used by
> octave forge developers to generate the documentation for the website
>
> * es and pt_br - these are part of the translation project. They
> basically add a new function (help in another language) and serve
> translated help for such languages. However, the translations are from
> back in 3.2 and no one is working on them anymore. I don't think it's
> good to package them
>
> * geometry and mechanics - these 2 packages are new and under active
> development. I believe it would be nice to package them
>
> * dataframe - this is a new package and is kinda handy. I think it
> would be good to package it
>
> Carnë
>
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Hi,

I agree with Carnë's suggestion. Just one comment:

mechanics is not a mature package yet. It has a very basic
functionality. Unless it is really easy to put it into Debian, I
wouldn't do it as yet.



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