[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave Package Meta-Package

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Bill Denney <bill at denney.ws> [2008-05-18 15:33]:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > Could that package be called octave-recommended instead of
> > octave-packages-recommended?
> The name of the package is less important to me (I didn't know about the 
> R metapackage, and the symmetry sounds good), but I would love to have 
> the package itself.

Okay, I looked at the current octave-forge packages in Debian and the
following ones have "Autoload: yes" in DESCRIPTION:

    econometrics
    gsl
    irsa
    ftp
    physicalconstants
    image
    nnet
    data-smoothing
    parallel
    specfun
    communications
    odebvp
    informationtheory
    control
    io
    special-matrix
    odepkg
    time
    general
    octcdf
    splines
    audio
    fixed
    signal
    plot
    linear-algebra
    statistics
    miscellaneous
    ann
    ident
    struct
    financial
    outliers
    combinatorics
    ga
    missing-functions
    optim
    strings
    optiminterp
    vrml
    symbolic
    video

(Note that some of those above have not yet been uploaded.)

Only nan, sockets, and tsa have "Autoload: no".  Should we create an
octave-recommended package that depends on the 42 packages above?  Another
question: should we use versioned Depends?

-- 
Rafael