Bug#623649: nmu for matlab-support

2014-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke 
Hi,

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 09:11:42PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
 On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
  On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Michael Gilbert wrote:
  Hi, I've uploaded an nmu to delayed/10 remove the libxp dependency.
  matlab versions have not required this for 4 years now, and this is
  one of two packages remaining with the dependency.
 
  I am not the main maintainer of this package but having experience with
  it,  Would you mind just moving it into Recommends so we would not need
  backport-specific patches:  we are providing this package across wide
  range of Debian/Ubuntu releases (so libxp6 would be present) and
  some people might still use elderly Matlabs.  So with it in Recommends
  we would please Debian gods and make users of older Matlabs happy.
 
 Unfortunately that won't really work since the recommends will become
 a policy violation once libxp is removed.  I would recommend adding
 some info to the docs or providing a fetching script to help users
 that are insistent on using old versions.

Thanks for the NMU. I see no problem removing the dependency, if libxp
is being removed.

Cheers,

Michael


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Bug#623649: nmu for matlab-support

2014-09-28 Thread Michael Gilbert 
control: tag -1 patch, pending

Hi, I've uploaded an nmu to delayed/10 remove the libxp dependency.
matlab versions have not required this for 4 years now, and this is
one of two packages remaining with the dependency.

Best wishes,
Mike
diff -Nru matlab-support-0.0.19/debian/changelog matlab-support-0.0.19+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- matlab-support-0.0.19/debian/changelog	2013-02-13 07:02:55.0 +
+++ matlab-support-0.0.19+nmu1/debian/changelog	2014-09-28 22:16:27.0 +
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+matlab-support (0.0.19+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Eliminate libxp dependency (closes: #623649).
+
+ -- Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org  Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:38:34 +
+
 matlab-support (0.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Debconf translation updates and additions
diff -Nru matlab-support-0.0.19/debian/control matlab-support-0.0.19+nmu1/debian/control
--- matlab-support-0.0.19/debian/control	2013-02-13 07:01:49.0 +
+++ matlab-support-0.0.19+nmu1/debian/control	2014-09-28 22:16:27.0 +
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 Package: matlab-support
 Section: contrib/devel
 Architecture: all
-Depends: debconf (=1.3.22) | cdebconf (= 0.43), ${misc:Depends}, libxp6, sudo
+Depends: debconf (=1.3.22) | cdebconf (= 0.43), ${misc:Depends}, sudo
 Recommends: libstdc++6-4.4-dev | libstdc++-dev
 Conflicts: matlab (= 0.0.14~)
 Replaces: matlab (= 0.0.14~)

Bug#623649: nmu for matlab-support

2014-09-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko 

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Michael Gilbert wrote:

 control: tag -1 patch, pending

 Hi, I've uploaded an nmu to delayed/10 remove the libxp dependency.
 matlab versions have not required this for 4 years now, and this is
 one of two packages remaining with the dependency.

I am not the main maintainer of this package but having experience with
it,  Would you mind just moving it into Recommends so we would not need
backport-specific patches:  we are providing this package across wide
range of Debian/Ubuntu releases (so libxp6 would be present) and
some people might still use elderly Matlabs.  So with it in Recommends
we would please Debian gods and make users of older Matlabs happy.

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Bug#623649: nmu for matlab-support

2014-09-28 Thread Michael Gilbert 
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

 On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Michael Gilbert wrote:

 control: tag -1 patch, pending

 Hi, I've uploaded an nmu to delayed/10 remove the libxp dependency.
 matlab versions have not required this for 4 years now, and this is
 one of two packages remaining with the dependency.

 I am not the main maintainer of this package but having experience with
 it,  Would you mind just moving it into Recommends so we would not need
 backport-specific patches:  we are providing this package across wide
 range of Debian/Ubuntu releases (so libxp6 would be present) and
 some people might still use elderly Matlabs.  So with it in Recommends
 we would please Debian gods and make users of older Matlabs happy.

Unfortunately that won't really work since the recommends will become
a policy violation once libxp is removed.  I would recommend adding
some info to the docs or providing a fetching script to help users
that are insistent on using old versions.

Best wishes,
Mike


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