[Pkg-octave-devel] Fwd: Popcon stats for the DOG packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11 March 2012 17:00, Philip Nienhuis <pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl> wrote:
>> Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>>                                         the dependency is not enforced
>>> on Debian. We should probably change that in the future.
>>
>> I'd conclude that situation can only mean that I underestimated the need out
>> there for JSON/PCH/fexist functionality....
>
> Another conclusion, much more negative, is that there's many users who
> installed the io package and, unable to use it, gave up (of octave or
> spreadsheet --- hopefully the later) instead of fixing it by
> installing the java package.

Hopefully this will change now with the latest version of io uploaded to
Debian, which automatically installs java and the necessary JARs for
reading/writing spreadsheet files.

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