[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: [prudhomm@debian.org: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] suitesparse and octave]

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Fri Jan 5 08:43:27 CET 2007


* Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org> [2007-01-04 20:38]:

> [ jeudi 4 janvier 2007 20:02 ]
> | | There will probably be a problem with the Debian package, though, since
> | | the header files are installed in /usr/include/suitesparse instead of
> | | /usr/include/sparsesuite.  I am a little bit confused by that, because it
> | | is not clear to me whether the choice of the directory name is upstream
> | | authors' choice or the Debian packager's choice.  Christophe: could you
> | | please clarify this issue?
>
> I was too quick: the library is called suitesparse and I 
> wrote /usr/include/suitesparse in my first email. So may be it is David who 
> made the typo, David? or was it intentional to 
> write /usr/include/sparsesuite ?

I am still confused and my original questions are not answered: [to
Christophe:] is the directory name /usr/include/suitesparse an upstream
choice or is this specific to the Debian package?  [To David:] why did you
choose /usr/include/sparsesuite for Octave? 

-- 
Rafael



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