Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-08-30 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Mike Miller mtmil...@debian.org [2015-08-29 18:55]: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:59:17 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: I changed the control file in the debian package (see attachments). default-jre-headless is now not in Depends but in Build-Depends and Recommends. The resulting octave-debian

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-08-29 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:59:17 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: I changed the control file in the debian package (see attachments). default-jre-headless is now not in Depends but in Build-Depends and Recommends. The resulting octave-debian packages does the job. In case somebody wants to use

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-16 Thread Alois Schloegl
On 2015-07-16 07:00, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:59:32 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the following solutions would do: 1) the dependency should be changed

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:59:32 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the following solutions would do: 1) the dependency should be changed to recommended, and/or 2) it should

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Alois Schloegl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Recently, I tried to remove openjdk-[6-8] from a number of machines because of the large number of open security issues with openjdk (currently there are 23, 21 and 20 open security issues on openjdk-6, openjdk-7, and openjdk-8, resp.). I learned

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 10:00 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: 3) keeping the java dependency in a octave package octave-java as it was before 3.8.x This is impossible because that package does not exist anymore for Octave 3.8 or higher. The current dependency is default-jre-headless. This should be

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the following solutions would do: 1) the dependency should be changed to recommended, and/or 2) it should allow for some alternative java engine (e.g. gcj or whatever).

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2014-03-29 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 17:08 +, Leo Butler wrote: Matlab compatibility is an ephemera and JWE himself has written against it being a goal that drives Octave development. He never wrote against it. He just said that in the beginning it wasn't a goal. Being compatible with Matlab is now

Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2014-03-24 Thread Leo Butler
Package: octave Version: 3.6.4-4+b2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Since Octave introduced its java-dependent gui (congrats) in v3.8.1, I have been unable/unwilling to upgrade. I believe that these graphical dependencies should be downgraded to *recommended* and/or a separate octave-nox

Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2014-03-24 Thread Mike Miller
Control: found -1 3.8.1-1 Control: notfound -1 3.6.4-4+b2 Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 14:30:30 +, Leo Butler wrote: Since Octave introduced its java-dependent gui (congrats) in v3.8.1, I have been unable/unwilling to upgrade. I believe

Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2014-03-24 Thread Leo Butler
Control: found -1 3.8.1-1 Control: notfound -1 3.6.4-4+b2 Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 14:30:30 +, Leo Butler wrote: Since Octave introduced its java-dependent gui (congrats) in v3.8.1, I have been unable/unwilling to