[Pkg-octave-devel] updating gnuplot dependency

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:55:34AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:34:10 -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> >   Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
> 
> On second thought, this could also be done with any one of the following
> patterns, all of which I have found in the archive:
> 
>    Recommends: gnuplot
>    Recommends: gnuplot | gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
>    Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox
>    Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox | gnuplot
>    Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot
> 
> IMHO the most important thing is ensuring gnuplot-qt is preferred to
> gnuplot-x11.

gnuplot is described as a transitional package, so I guess the goal is to
remove it at some point. So I think we should go for

 gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox

See also the discussion in #677672.

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