[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'm currently updating the Debian packages to 5.10.0. This was delayed waiting
for the new swig to make it into unstable since the octave support for 3.8 
requires this. That is now in place, so I hope to be able to have some new
packages ready for testing soon.

Andrew