Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-08-29 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:59:17 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: > I changed the control file in the debian package (see attachments). > > default-jre-headless is now not in "Depends" but in "Build-Depends" and > "Recommends". The resulting octave-debian packages does the job. > > In case somebody w

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-16 Thread Alois Schloegl
On 2015-07-16 07:00, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:59:32 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: >>> Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the >>> following solutions would do: >>> 1) the dependency should

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:59:32 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: > > Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the > > following solutions would do: > > 1) the dependency should be changed to "recommended", and/or > > 2)

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 10:00 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: > 3) keeping the java dependency in a octave package "octave-java" as > it was before 3.8.x This is impossible because that package does not exist anymore for Octave 3.8 or higher. The current dependency is default-jre-headless. This should

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:00:33 +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote: > Octave should not have a strong dependency on openjdk. Any of the > following solutions would do: > 1) the dependency should be changed to "recommended", and/or > 2) it should allow for some alternative java engine (e.g. gcj or > whate

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2015-07-15 Thread Alois Schloegl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Recently, I tried to remove openjdk-[6-8] from a number of machines because of the large number of open security issues with openjdk (currently there are 23, 21 and 20 open security issues on openjdk-6, openjdk-7, and openjdk-8, resp.). I learned t

Bug#742503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#742503: octave 3.8.1 requires java

2014-03-29 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 17:08 +, Leo Butler wrote: > Matlab compatibility is an ephemera and JWE himself has written > against it being a goal that drives Octave development. He never wrote against it. He just said that in the beginning it wasn't a goal. Being compatible with Matlab is now Octav