Package: gnuplot-nox Version: 4.6.5-1 Severity: normal Hi.
When using gnuplot-nox to make plots WITHOUT setting up a terminal, gnuplot starts up with the "unknown" terminal. Any plot command then results in no output AND no error messages. Example: dima@shorty:~$ dpkg -l gnuplot-nox Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-======================-================-================-================================================== ii gnuplot-nox 4.6.5-1 amd64 Command-line driven interactive plotting program. dima@shorty:~$ ls -l ~/.gnuplot ls: cannot access /home/dima/.gnuplot: No such file or directory dima@shorty:~$ gnuplot G N U P L O T Version 4.6 patchlevel 5 last modified February 2014 Build System: Linux x86_64 Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2014 Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others gnuplot home: http://www.gnuplot.info faq, bugs, etc: type "help FAQ" immediate help: type "help" (plot window: hit 'h') Terminal type set to 'unknown' gnuplot> plot x gnuplot> ^D So no plot was generated, and no error message came through either. This is a highly non-obvious failure, especially when using gnuplot indirectly (with feedgnuplot, say). I think gnuplot should produce an error message if trying to plot with an 'unknown' terminal, and I'll suggest that upstream. Until then, I propose to set a default terminal in /usr/share/gnuplot/gnuplot/4.6/gnuplotrc so that we don't come up with the 'unknown' terminal. I suggest the 'dumb' terminal. This likely isn't what the user wants (although maybe it IS, since they installed 'gnuplot-nox'), but it would be a highly obvious behavior. -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers