[Pkg-octave-devel] removal of qtoctave?

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 22 février 2014 à 17:03 -0500, Mike Miller a écrit :
> About 8 months ago on this list, it was decided that qtoctave shall be
> removed once we have Octave with a native GUI packaged:
> 
> Rafael wrote:
> >* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2013-06-06 00:36]:
> >>
> >> Le mercredi 05 juin 2013 à 23:42 +0200, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> >>
> >>> which packages should we remove now after the release? I am aware of 
> >>> qtoctave and do plan to file a bug about it against ftp.debian.org.
> >>> Any 
> >>> others?
> >>
> >> I think we should ask for the removal of qtoctave once octave 3.8/4.0 
> >> (with GUI) is released, not before.
> >
> > Agreed.
> 
> Even though the GUI does not come up by default, it is available, do we
> agree that this transition the time for removal of qtoctave?

I'm still a bit unsure. On one hand I'd really like to get rid of
qtoctave (it is unmaintained), but on the other hand it's still working
and I don't know if the native GUI is stable enough to replace it.

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