Bug#706761: override: dynare:math/extra, octave-audio:math/extra, octave-benchmark:math/extra, octave-bim:math/extra, octave-communications:math/extra, octave-control:math/extra, octave-data-smoothing:math/extra, octave-dataframe:math/extra, octave-econometrics:math/extra, octave-epstk:math/extra, octave-financial:math/extra, octave-fixed:math/extra, octave-fpl:math/extra, octave-ga:math/extra, octave-general:math/extra, octave-geometry:math/extra, octave-gsl:math/extra, octave-image:math/extra, octave-io:math/extra, octave-java:math/extra, octave-linear-algebra:math/extra, octave-mapping:math/extra, octave-miscellaneous:math/extra, octave-missing-functions:math/extra, octave-msh:math/extra, octave-nan:math/extra, octave-nnet:math/extra, octave-nurbs:math/extra, octave-ocs:math/extra, octave-octcdf:math/extra, octave-octgpr:math/extra, octave-odepkg:math/extra, octave-openmpi-ext:math/extra, octave-optim:math/extra, octave-optiminterp:math/extra, octave-pkg-dev:d eve l/extra, octave-plot:math/extra, octave-quaternion:math/extra, octave-secs1d:math/extra, octave-secs2d:math/extra, octave-signal:math/extra, octave-sockets:math/extra, octave-specfun:math/extra, octave-splines:math/extra, octave-statistics:math/extra, octave-strings:math/extra, octave-struct:math/extra, octave-symbolic:math/extra, octave-tsa:math/extra, octave-vrml:math/extra, octave-zenity:math/extra, qtoctave:math/extra

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 03:24:49PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> writes:
> > Please downgrade these packages to priority extra, since they depend on
> > octave (which has priority extra), see Policy §2.5.
> 
> Is there any reason why octave has Priority: extra and not optional?

Well, I think that "This is all the software that you might reasonably
want to install if you didn't know what it was and don't have
specialized requirements." for optional packages does not quite fit
Octave's rather special user group: people in need of an interpreter
language for numerical copmutations.

Anyway, I don't think that we as Octave maintainers have a hard position
here: we will take whatever FTP-Masters feel is the best solution, but
we would really like to have that fixed before starting to push our
updates from experimental into unstable (hint,hint :))

Thanks
        Thomas


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