Hello.  Please help me quickly test some new versions of the following
packages: pdflib, gnuplot, grace.  The new versions are all in the 
unstable tree.  It would be particularly useful to know that gnuplot-py,
octave, and siag work correctly with the new version of gnuplot.

The change which was made was to only build static libraries for pdflib,
and compile those into the other programs.  This was done for licensing
reasons, to enable us to distribute gnuplot and grace with our binary
distribution.

With this change, if I can get it pushed into stable quickly, we'll be
in the following happy situation: every package which is in the binary
distribution only depends on packages which are *also* in the binary
distribution.  No more user complaints that octave or pdftex can't be
installed because of some silly missing thing from the bindist.

Some of our Restrictive/Distributable packages will still have Build
dependencies which can't be distributed, but they'll have no actual
dependencies.

When the rush of getting the bindist out is over, I'll be proposing this
as a policy to be followed in the future, for all of our packages:
if you package depends on a Restrictive pacakge, then your package mujst
also be labelled as Restrictive.

But let's not debate that now!  Please, instead, help me test these few
and let me know your results.

  Thanks,
  Dave


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