Bug#702832: matlab-support: source in main even though it depends on non-free matlab

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Hanke
Control: tag -1 + wontfix Control: severity -1 wishlist Hi Michael, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:05:16PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > That's a nice readme, but it isn't a license to circumvent debian > policy. The "right" approach is to separate the matlab-support source > package into matlab-su

Bug#702832: matlab-support: source in main even though it depends on non-free matlab

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > May be this could shine the light over the situation and choices made? > > $> cat matlab-support/debian/README.source > Although this whole package is pointless without Matlab (a large non-free > something) the source package has been pl

Bug#702832: matlab-support: source in main even though it depends on non-free matlab

2013-03-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
May be this could shine the light over the situation and choices made? $> cat matlab-support/debian/README.source Although this whole package is pointless without Matlab (a large non-free something) the source package has been placed into 'main' for the following reason: It builds a 'matlab-supp

Bug#702832: matlab-support: source in main even though it depends on non-free matlab

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: matlab-support severity: serious version: 0.0.18 The matlab-support source package (and the matlab-support-dev binary package) are currently in main, even though they are useless without a matlab installation. Meanwhile matlab-support binary is in contrib. This I believe violates debian