On 09.03.2013 15:19, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > But should it exit nicely if no matlab is present??? > Absent matlab == matlab cannot be supported == error in my vision of > how things should be handled in this package. Having it installed > without error should provide some guarantee that Matlab is present so > that dependent packages could rely on that. > > If it is in the violation of some statute of the policy -- please > let us know. Otherwise -- please wait for the main maintainer's > opinion on this issue. > > The name and description of the package provide sufficient information > to avoid installation "by accident". And if that happens, it should be > removed then. >
in Ubuntu we have around 40 reports (which I'm currently duplicating into one report) from people who install it and get an error message sometimes their installation even hangs completely, even though I see no significant difference to in the installation scripts to Debian. The number of reports almost is about 1/4 of the popcon in Debian. While we Debian maintainers know how to deal with dpkg failures, average users don't. I don't know if it technically violates policy, but its certainly not acceptable for a distribution not focused on only technical users. If not fixed removal from Ubuntu is certainly an option, but I'd prefer to have it fixed in Debian too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
