On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:13 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > The matlab-support package represents a local Matlab installation in a > Debian system. The package itself doesn't need libxp. However, the > reason for this is: > > mih@hydra /apps/matlab % ldd Matlab_R2010a/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB |grep libXp > libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x00007f80e2f60000) > libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x00007f80e1e34000) > > Matlab doesn't ship with libXp, hence removing it would make Matlab > incompatible with Debian, until Mathworks adjusts to this situation. > > I understand the issues related to proprietary software, but Matlab is > a fairly popular piece of software.
Thanks for the analysis. I'm a great fan of octave but I agree its worthwhile supporting the installation and utility of matlab on Debian systems. Social contract #4 etc. > Is there a plan how to deal with > this (or at all)? > The plan is a simple one: don't remove libxp :) We'll leave it in until nothing uses it anymore. Would Mathworks pay attention if you draw their attention to the deprecation of Xprint? (Would be very interesting to learn if they have customers who actually use the libXp support!) Thanks for the response, Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
