[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#473224: Package glpk 4.28-1 does not support ODBC and MySQL

[Xypron]

Package: glpk
Version: 4.28-1
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-023stab046.2-enterprise
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages glpk depends on:
ii  glpk-doc                      4.28-1     linear programming kit - documenta
ii  glpk-utils                    4.28-1     linear programming kit - documenta
ii  libglpk-dev                   4.28-1     linear programming kit - developme
ii  libglpk0                      4.28-1     linear programming kit with intege

glpk recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "de_DE"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

In the packages for glpk 4.28-1 the examples for SQL connectivity are missing
These examplese are in the GNU source
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/glpk-4.28.tar.gz

Trying to execute a model file with a table command the following error is issured:
MySQL table driver not supported
iODBC table driver not supported

These problems do not exist if GLPK 4.28 is build from the GNU source.

Please, add the missing examples.
Please, provide the missing functionality.