ons, 03 12 2008 kl. 09:51 +0100, skrev Thomas Weber: > No, the problem is not the octave3.0-headers package, which is a > separate discussion we are having in Debian right now. In fact, this is > more about people building everything from source, which is something > that should be _encouraged_. > > The problem is: the 'arpack' packages assumes that Octave was built in a > certain way, which may or may not be the case. Building Octave without > sparse support is a valid configuration, so a package can't simply > assume that people will have built Octave with sparse support > (especially as suitesparse requires you to either build METIS first or > edit its Makefiles: we have more than one report in Octave's archive > about people failing to build suitesparse).
Okay, I understand. If you want changes in the DESCRIPTION file for the 'arpack' package then it's fine with me to 'suitesparse' to BuildRequires. However, if ARPACK has been released as Free Software, then I guess this package should be integrated into core Octave (it provides functions that are in core Matlab). So, perhaps this specific problem is one that'll go away on its own? > FWIW, we already had a bug report in Debian, asking us to let Octave > depend on about every database we have in Debian right now, for the sake > of the 'database' package. > http://bugs.debian.org/496699 > > If you depend on something that is not guaranteed to be in Octave, > mention it in the depends line. Aarghh. This is why I'm grateful that people like you are spending time on packaging. But if you want to change the BuildRequires field of the 'database' package, then I don't see why you couldn't just do that. That way, it'll be easier for people to figure out that they need to install these packages themselves. Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
