Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab/-/issues/13151 Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Hi Sébastien, Le 28/05/2023 à 17:46, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
Hi Pierre,
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The Debian package src:slicot contains a pre-release of version 5.0 of Slicot, which was the last version distributed by upstream under the GPL (later versions are proprietary). However at some point upstream changed their mind and decided to stop distributing the 5.0 release under the GPL, so they removed it from their website. The website now has only has version 4.5 under the GPL. We kept 5.0 in Debian because there is nothing that prevents us from doing so from a legal point of view. Other projects (e.g. the “control” package for Octave) do the same. But it looks like the version of Slicot embedded in Scilab is even older than 4.5, and corresponds to version 4.0. My guess is that the missing symbols that you get correspond to functions that were removed between 4.0 and 5.0. Unfortunately this probably means that fixing the present bug requires more work than just patching the build system (i.e. Scilab upstream needs to move to a more recent Slicot).
Thanks a lot for your help on understand the issue. Admittedly there is quite a lot of work to do here :)
I am updating the Forwarded-to URI, this issue is still open upstream.
Best wishes,
Same to you, -- Pierre
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