[Pkg-octave-devel] Removal of packages

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 7 June 2013 18:05, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:27:48AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> Another serious candidate is the octave-fixed package:
>>
>>     http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Fixed-point-arithmetic-td2284793.html
>
> Yes, the SVN log suggests that there is no real development behind it.
> Just general cleanup that happens across all packages.

Yeah, it's been broken for a long time. I managed to make it compile,
but it's failing all of its tests.

Its popcon is relatively high, but nobody else has stepped up to fix it.

- Jordi G. H.