[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Robert T. Short]

On 03/16/2012 02:47 PM, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Here is an update on the porting of the Octave-Forge packages for Debian.
> Just as a reminder, we are porting the packages in order to make them
> work with Octave 3.6.  Our goal is to have a reasonable suite of ported
> packages before the freeze of the wheezy distribution, which will happen
> in June 2012.
>
> I am writing mainly because we need more feedback from the developers and
> users of the OF packages in order to better organize our work. Please,
> comment on the points below.
>
> The following packages have been removed from Debian for different reasons
> (buggy, integrated into 3.6, unmaintained or abandonned upstream, etc.).
> If you heartedly disagree with some removals, please tell us.
>
>      ann
>      bioinfo
>      ftp
>      integration
>      irsa
>      nlwing2
>      outliers
>      physicalconstants
>      symband
>      xraylib
>
> The following packages are already in Debian and worked correctly with
> Octave 3.2, but have not yet been ported to Octave 3.6.  We need to know
> two things: first, which ones of those must absolutely be ported.
> Second, which ones of those should be removed from Debian.
>
>      audio
>      benchmark
>      combinatorics
>      financial
>      fixed
>      fpl
>      ga
>      ident
>      informationtheory
>      mapping
>      multicore
>      nnet
>      nurbs
>      optiminterp
>      ocs
>      octcdf
>      octgpr
>      parallel
>      pdb
>      simp
>      sockets
>      tsa
>      vrml
>
> The following packages have never been in Debian.  Please, tell us which
> ones must absolutely get in.
>
>      actuarial
>      civil-engineering
>      database
>      dataframe
>      dicom
>      engine
>      es
>      fenv
>      fits
>      fl-core
>      fuzzy-logic-toolkit
>      generate_html
>      geometry
>      gnuplot
>      mechanics
>      oct2mat
>      octclip
>      octproj
>      odebvp
>      openmpi_ext
>      pt_br
>      quaternion
>      queueing
>      secs3d
>      special-matrix
>      spline-gcvspl
>      video
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> All the best,
>
> Rafael
>
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Rafael,

Isn't there a communications package in -forge?  I don't see it in your 
list.

Bob