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Re: Octave forge missing from Etch ?
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Rafael Laboissiere |
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Re: Octave forge missing from Etch ? |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:20:06 -0500 |
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* Madhusudan Singh <address@hidden> [2005-10-14 21:36]:
> I am using Debian Etch (testing) distribution. During some customary
> updates, I found to my horror that both octave-forge and
> octave-matcompat were removed.
>
> Is this a temporary problem (hopefully) ? I use octave forge functions
> a lot and do not want to sit and compile it for an otherwise Debian
> packaged octave installation.
All the new Octave-related packages are sitting in unstable and are
prevented to enter testing due to a dependency problem with some
libraries. In the case of octave-forge, see
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=octave-forge
Yes, this is a temporary problem, but since Debian is a complex beast
(several architectures supported and loads of cool packages), library
transitions may be painfully slow.
An aside note: the Octave-related packages in debian are now maitained by
the Debian Octave Group (http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org). There is
also a mailing list for this group and you might in the future send your
comments to it instead of using help-octave.
--
Rafael
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