Thomas, while looking at the discussion about the control package I just noticed this thread in the Debian Octave mailing list
Thomas Weber tweber at debian.org Tue May 29 17:35:04 UTC 2012: > Hi, > > we removed octave-bim some time ago (it depended on octave-msh, which was > not installable with the serial hdf5 library). msh and bim consist of .m files only, can you elaborate a bit more on why they depend on external libraries? > octave-secs1d needs octave-bim, so I think it's a candidate for removal > - we simply cannot support it. If you had reported this issue upstream you would have probably had better luck with getting help on this task. > Thomas c. P.S.: Please keep the octave-forge mailing list in CC as I'm not subscribed to the debian-octave mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev