On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:49:55AM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote: > > It really shouldn't be called “matlab” then. > The likelihood of Debian having a package that actually provides matlab > seems to be rather low. If it ever happens this package would be > obsolete and could be removed.
Still, it looks a bit convoluted to name a package as something that it
does not ship, relying then on the fact that the user will rule out that
possibility, knowing the licensing details of the specific software in
question.
> I assume you want to point to the problem of some people having matlab
> packages that actually contain the binaries, right? How does Debian
> deal with this issue? Could we have a 'skype' package?
>
> What name do you suggest? Maybe 'matlab-package'?
'matlab-integration' would be nice, but in the specific context of
matlab might be misleading (cfr. 'octave-integration'). As a second
choice, how about 'matlab-support'?
Cheers.
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