[Pkg-octave-devel] Debian packagers want to know

[Sébastien Villemot]

Philip Nienhuis <pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl> writes:

> 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.

We have just packaged io 1.0.17 for Debian (see [1]).

This is the first Debian release for which spreadsheet support works out
of the box. For your information, I copy/paste below the README that I
included in the package:


This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX) and OpenDocument
(ODS) spreadsheet files from Octave.

If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following
interfaces should already be functional:

 * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading XLS files

 * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC files

Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running
LibreOffice processes.

Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not
available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free
(e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since
it depends on non-DFSG-free software).

You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in
/usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The chk_spreadsheet_support
function can help you diagnose problems if any.

More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and
READ-ODS.html.


> 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 ;-(  )

Of course, we will package this upcoming release when it becomes
available. If you want to have it in the next Debian release (Wheezy),
this should be done before June.

Best,

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/octave-io/news/20120319T234856Z.html

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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