[Pkg-octave-devel] Size of the octave-forge packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-22 23:47]:

> I'm currently reading through the control files and frankly, I have some
> doubts with several packages:
> 
> I take special-matrices as an example: 
> This package ships 1(!) .m file, consisting of 7(!) lines[1] of code
> (ignoring comments). The corresponding debian/control file has 18 lines,
> about half of which are compulsive.
> 
> If ftp-masters reject this, I can't really blame them. 
> 
> [1] Of these 7 lines, 3 are argument checking ...

Yes, this particular package is an overkill.  We could put it on hold for
now., waiting for one of the following: either more functions are added
upstream, or pkg.m is patched for accepting directories instead of only
tarballs and we could include lauchli.m into another package (e.g.
octave-miscellaneous).

-- 
Rafael