On 29 October 2005 at 19:18, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-28 21:58]: | | > The extra packages of octave-forge are not installed . I | > was in particular looking for tk_octave. I couldn't find | > a note in /usr/share/doc/octave-forge explaining why the | > package maintainer decided to drop the extra packages. | > | > Kindly include extra packages ( that are "free" ) and | > put a note in the debian README file for octave-forge, | > listing the packages being dropped for whatever reason. | > Hopefully you would agree the only pertinent reasons may | > be violation of DFSG or some sought of dependency problem. | | I think you are right, but I do not know exactly what to answer. The | octave-forge package is being currently maintained in a collective | project hosted at Alioth (The Debian Octave Group, | http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org). I do not know if any of the DOC | members can explain why tk_octave (and other components) is not included | in the package. Perhaps Dirk can enlighten us on the issue.
I followed the setup provided by Paul Kienzle, the upstream maintainer, who generally had pretty compelling why certain parts were enabled -- or disabled. The latter case was typically triggered for not-exactly-free code, or code that wasn't yet at at least a beta stage Maybe the easiest for Balbir would be to build a local variant, starting from the Debian package sources and modified whichever subdir he deems suitable? Cheers, Dirk -- Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty. -- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]