[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] Remove octave-plplot (for now)

[Andrew Ross]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:13:32PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le jeudi 27 février 2014 à 17:07 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> > Matthias Klose has made a change to the plplot package in Ubuntu which 
> > prevents the building of the Octave binding for PLplot.  In sum, this 
> > means the removal of the octave-plplot package.  This is a radical way of 
> > fixing Bug#73639, which is blocking the Octave 3.6 -> 3.8 transition. 
> 
> Actually plplot is not blocking the Octave 3.8 transition, because it is
> not present in testing.
> 
> However it would be great if someone could fix the many RC bugs of
> plplot (and possibly update it to a newer version).

I have updated 5.10.0 packages which fix all the issues with octave-3.8, but 
they require swig 2.0.12 which is not yet in sid. Once that is in I should
be able to get the updated packages back into Debian.

The debian packaging files are kept in the plplot svn repository (in debian/)
but are not shipped with the release tar ball. You can always grab them from 
there.

Andrew