[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

[Leo Butler]

Package: octave
Version: 3.6.4-4+b2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Since Octave introduced its java-dependent gui (congrats) in v3.8.1, I
have been unable/unwilling to upgrade. I believe that these graphical
dependencies should be downgraded to *recommended* and/or a separate
octave-nox package--which installs only a terminal version of
octave--be provided.

Although I cannot find a section in the DPM which deals with this
situation, a number of related packages (e.g. emacs, gnuplot) follow
the practice of providing a terminal-only version of the package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  libamd2.3.1                      1:4.2.1-3
ii  libarpack2                       3.1.5-2
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.1-4
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-7
ii  libc6                            2.18-4
ii  libcamd2.3.1                     1:4.2.1-3
ii  libccolamd2.8.0                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcholmod2.1.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcolamd2.8.0                   1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                  7.35.0-1
ii  libcxsparse3.1.2                 1:4.2.1-3
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.2-4
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.2-4
ii  libfreetype6                     2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.8.2-16
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         9.2.2-1
ii  libglpk36                        4.53-1
ii  libgomp1                         4.8.2-16
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3             1.3.18-1
ii  libgraphicsmagick3               1.3.18-1
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.5.0-2
ii  liboctave1                       3.6.4-4+b2
ii  libpcre3                         1:8.31-2
ii  libqhull6                        2012.1-4
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                       4.8.2-16
ii  libumfpack5.6.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-1
ii  octave-common                    3.6.4-4
ii  texinfo                          5.2.0.dfsg.1-2

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot-x11     4.6.5-1
ii  libatlas3-base  3.10.1-4
ii  pstoedit        3.62-1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn  octave-htmldoc              <none>
ii  octave-info                 3.8.0-5
ii  octave3.2-doc [octave-doc]  3.2.4-12

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