Folks, the Debian packagers are hard at work to updating the Debian packages for Octave-Forge, and they would like to know what packages are a priority (i.e. which ones are the most important, by number of users and because other packages depend on them).
Making Debian packages is important. The Octave's native pkg install mechanism is brittle and can fail in a number of ways, because users haven't installed required compilation libraries, or because API versions between Octave-Forge and Octave aren't matched up. The goal of having Debian packages is to eliminate both of these problems and shift the burden of fixing those problems from the users to the Debian maintainers. Debian needs to match versions of Octave with working versions of Octave-Forge packages. So which packages are a priority? Thanks, - Jordi G. H. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@laboissiere.net> Date: 2012/3/12 Subject: Re: Nice to have you back To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> Hi Jordi, Since you became quite tightly involved in Octave and Octave-Forge, could you give us an advise regarding the Debian packages? We are clearly lacking manpower in the DOG (Debian Octave Group) and the list of packages to be migrated before the wheezy freeze in June is quite large. Could you please tell me which of the Octave-Forge packages must absolutely be shipped with the next stable version of Debian? Also, in our wiki [1], there is a list of OF packages that are not yet in Debian. Tell me, please, which of them should also be included. Best, Rafael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
