[Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing with qtoctave

[Sébastien Villemot]

Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:

> is anybody willing to care for qtoctave during the next release? I
> assume the answer is "no", so I think we should make that clear and ask
> for its removal. It's not helpful to ship it now and then tell users
> they should not use it.

The problem is that we have currently nothing to replace qtoctave with,
in terms of equivalent functionality. And even if it is clumsy, qtoctave
is working and people are using it (popcon indicates 1046 installations,
and also 172 "votes"--i.e. people actually using it).

Hopefully for wheezy+1 we will have the native GUI. But for wheezy I
would rather keep qtoctave, for lack of a better GUI and despite its
deficiencies.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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