[Pkg-octave-devel] updating gnuplot dependency
Sébastien Villemot
sebastien at debian.org
Fri Aug 18 14:24:06 UTC 2017
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:55:34AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:34:10 -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> > Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
>
> On second thought, this could also be done with any one of the following
> patterns, all of which I have found in the archive:
>
> Recommends: gnuplot
> Recommends: gnuplot | gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
> Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
> Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox | gnuplot
> Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot
>
> IMHO the most important thing is ensuring gnuplot-qt is preferred to
> gnuplot-x11.
gnuplot is described as a transitional package, so I guess the goal is to
remove it at some point. So I think we should go for
gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
See also the discussion in #677672.
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