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

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 10:00 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote:
> 3) keeping the java dependency in a octave package "octave-java" as
> it was before 3.8.x

This is impossible because that package does not exist anymore for
Octave 3.8 or higher.

The current dependency is default-jre-headless. This should be a
build-dep (because the current Octave build system has an outstanding
issue about requiring a Java implementation at build time) but
downgraded to a Recommends.

I don't know how feasible this is. It may require patches on Octave
itself to not require Java at compile time.

- Jordi G. H.