Package: octave Version: 3.6.4-4+b2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Since Octave introduced its java-dependent gui (congrats) in v3.8.1, I have been unable/unwilling to upgrade. I believe that these graphical dependencies should be downgraded to *recommended* and/or a separate octave-nox package--which installs only a terminal version of octave--be provided. Although I cannot find a section in the DPM which deals with this situation, a number of related packages (e.g. emacs, gnuplot) follow the practice of providing a terminal-only version of the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages octave depends on: ii libamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3 ii libarpack2 3.1.5-2 ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.10.1-4 ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2.20110419-7 ii libc6 2.18-4 ii libcamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3 ii libccolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3 ii libcholmod2.1.2 1:4.2.1-3 ii libcolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.35.0-1 ii libcxsparse3.1.2 1:4.2.1-3 ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.3-7 ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.3-7 ii libfltk-gl1.3 1.3.2-4 ii libfltk1.3 1.3.2-4 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 9.2.2-1 ii libglpk36 4.53-1 ii libgomp1 4.8.2-16 ii libgraphicsmagick++3 1.3.18-1 ii libgraphicsmagick3 1.3.18-1 ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.5.0-2 ii liboctave1 3.6.4-4+b2 ii libpcre3 1:8.31-2 ii libqhull6 2012.1-4 ii libqrupdate1 1.1.2-1 ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16 ii libumfpack5.6.2 1:4.2.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii octave-common 3.6.4-4 ii texinfo 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2 Versions of packages octave recommends: ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.5-1 ii libatlas3-base 3.10.1-4 ii pstoedit 3.62-1 Versions of packages octave suggests: pn octave-htmldoc <none> ii octave-info 3.8.0-5 ii octave3.2-doc [octave-doc] 3.2.4-12 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org