Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2014-03-12 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Michael Hanke wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36:02AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: Thanks for digging this out! No I wonder whether we should drop this dependency for wheezy or afterwards. Any thoughts on this? It comes down to an evaluation of how many matlab

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2012-03-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:00:30 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:25:33PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Looks like MATLAB no longer depends on libxp, starting from version 7.13 (R2011b). Thanks for digging this out! No I wonder whether we should drop this

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36:02AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: Thanks for digging this out! No I wonder whether we should drop this dependency for wheezy or afterwards. Any thoughts on this? It comes down to an evaluation of how many matlab versions lower than 7.13 are still in current use on

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2012-03-28 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Drew Parsons dpars...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:13 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: Would Mathworks pay attention if you draw their attention to the deprecation of Xprint? (Would be very interesting to learn if they have customers who actually use the libXp support!) Looks like

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:25:33PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Drew Parsons dpars...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:13 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: Would Mathworks pay attention if you draw their attention to the deprecation of Xprint? (Would be very interesting to

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:54:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: Your package depends on libxp. This situation sometimes arises historically from the time before xprint was considered obsolete, with Build-depends: libxp-dev being set in the past and then forgotten and untouched. This bug has

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2011-04-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:13 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: The matlab-support package represents a local Matlab installation in a Debian system. The package itself doesn't need libxp. However, the reason for this is: mih@hydra /apps/matlab % ldd Matlab_R2010a/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB |grep libXp

Bug#623649: matlab-support: is the libxp dependency necessary?

2011-04-21 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: matlab-support Version: 0.0.14 Severity: wishlist The xprint package is obsolete and scheduled for removal. A related library is libxp, which provides an API that enables client programs to access and use an Xprint server. Since we're getting rid of xprint, one could argue it makes