[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 20:10:22 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le mercredi 11 décembre 2013 à 11:41 -0500, Mike Miller a écrit :
>
>> In your plan, what do you propose to do with the oct-files that are
>> currently in the octave package? Because both octave and octave-cli
>> need those files, either octave-cli would have to depend on octave, in
>> which case there is again no need for an or-dependency, or the
>> oct-files would also have to be split into a new package.
>
> I guess the solution would be to put the oct-files into octave-cli, and
> have octave depend on octave-cli. Thus people who don't want the GUI
> version would install only octave-cli.

This seems awkward, but would work.

> Nevertheless, my preference still goes to having both the CLI and the
> GUI in one single package. But of course I'm open to splitting if that
> turns out to be better for our users.

If the octave package is to contain the GUI executable, then I'm in
favor of a single package containing both as well. I'm also open to
splitting the package if, as everyone has stated, testing or user
requirements show it makes sense.

-- 
mike