[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging octplot

[Rafa Rodriguez Galvan]

El sáb, 03-12-2005 a las 18:49, Dirk Eddelbuettel escribió:
> On 3 December 2005 at 18:16, Rafa Rodriguez Galvan wrote:
> | OK, as you can see in svn, I've the packaged octplot using CBDS!
> 
> Sounds like nice work, congratulations!

Thanks!

> | So, I've included in debian/control an explicit dependency on 
> | octave-forge, and recommended (instead of depended on) 
> | "gs-gpl | gs-esp".
> 
> There is a virtual package postscript-preview:
>   postscript-preview      a preprocessor that creates Postscript output
> according to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.txt.gz
> on my testing box.

Also is on my testing box... but postscript-previewer is only provided by

xpdf-utils 3.01-2
xpdf-reader 3.01-2

Surprising, I think... But, in the virtual package names list, I found
another virtual package named postscript-viewer that may fit better for
octplot. According to "apt-cache showpkg", it reverse provides:

kghostview 4:3.4.3-2
gv 1:3.6.1-12
gs-gpl 8.15-4
gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1
gnome-gv 1:2.8.5-2
evince 0.4.0-1
bmv 1.2-18

> | W: octplot: extra-license-file
> | usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i486-pc-linux-gnu/fonts/copying
> | --
> | 
> | This file contains another copy of GPL v2. What should I do? 
> | May I remove this file? Should I suggest the upstream developer
> | he to remove it?
> 
> Replace the file with a softlink back to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
> if it is actually used; otherwise just delete it as the debian/copyright
> should reference the GPL already.
> 
> Dirk

Rafael Laboissiere thinks also that the file should be deleted from the 
package. So I suppose this is the most suitable solution.

-- 
Rafa Rodríguez Galván.
Departamento de Matemáticas. Universidad de Cádiz.
Tlf: 956015478