Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tir, 02 12 2008 kl. 22:54 +0100, skrev Thomas Weber:
>> Yes, but it's possible to compile Octave without sparse support. So
>> arpack is relying on a feature that might not be there. Or is
>> suitesparse now mandatory in Octave? Then my argument is obviously
>> void.
> 
> Isn't the relevant question if the binary distributed by Debian is
> compiled against suitesparse? I mean, if the binary version of Octave
> that ships with Debian (and hence Ubuntu) depends on suitesparse, then I
> would assume that the octave-headers package would depend on the
> suitesparse headers.

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be so. :-( In debian/sid, here's what
I get from

$ wajig details octave3.0-headers |grep Depends

Depends: octave3.0 (= 1:3.0.1-6lenny1), gfortran, gcc, g++,
libreadline5-dev, libncurses5-dev, libhdf5-serial-dev (>= 1.6.5) |
libhdf5-lam-dev (>= 1.6.5) | libhdf5-mpich-dev (>= 1.6.5) |
libhdf5-openmpi-dev (>= 1.6.5), libblas-dev, liblapack-dev, libfftw3-dev

IIRC, I recently read somewhere that licensing problem of arpack has
been resolved so it may be back in "main" again.

Regards,
ST
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