On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36:02AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > >Thanks for digging this out! No I wonder whether we should drop this > >dependency for wheezy or afterwards. Any thoughts on this? > > It comes down to an evaluation of how many matlab versions lower > than 7.13 are still in current use on users' machines running Debian > unstable/testing. > > Are there likely to be many 6.0/7.0 matlab users?
I have no clue. In our machines we still have a 2010 release, but Matlab is not used very much at all. > As far as libxp is concerned, there are still a few other packages > depending on it, and the indirect dependence via lesstif/motif could > be tricky to unravel. So I'm not aiming to remove libxp for wheezy, > and therefore there's no need to rush into removing it from > matlab-support. We could consider cleaning this up to be a release > goal for wheezy+1. Sounds good to me! Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
