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Bug#538047: qtoctave: dependency on octave3.0 too restrictive

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Junqian Gordon Xu

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Jul 22, 2009, 1:30:17 PM7/22/09
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Package: qtoctave
Version: 0.8.1+dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist

currently the dependency is locked to octave3.0. Would be nice to be
able to use qtoctave with octave3.x

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages qtoctave depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-11 GCC support library
ii libqt4-xml 4.4.3-1 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqtcore4 4.4.3-1 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4.4.3-1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
pn octave3.0 <none> (no description available)

Versions of packages qtoctave recommends:
pn octave3.0-htmldoc <none> (no description available)

qtoctave suggests no packages.

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Thomas Weber

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Jul 23, 2009, 4:20:08 AM7/23/09
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:16:52PM -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
> Package: qtoctave
> Version: 0.8.1+dfsg-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> currently the dependency is locked to octave3.0. Would be nice to be
> able to use qtoctave with octave3.x

You can choose octave3.2 as default octave using update-alternatives:
# update-alternatives --config octave

However, 3.0 and 3.2 are so different that you'll end up with an error
message in QtOctave's message window:

octave:13>error: `variables' undefined near line 1 column 176

So, I won't change the dependency for now.

Thomas

Junqian Gordon Xu

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Jul 23, 2009, 4:10:08 PM7/23/09
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On 07/23/2009 03:09 AM, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:16:52PM -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
>> Package: qtoctave
>> Version: 0.8.1+dfsg-3
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> currently the dependency is locked to octave3.0. Would be nice to be
>> able to use qtoctave with octave3.x
>
> You can choose octave3.2 as default octave using update-alternatives:
> # update-alternatives --config octave
>
> However, 3.0 and 3.2 are so different that you'll end up with an error
> message in QtOctave's message window:
>
> octave:13>error: `variables' undefined near line 1 column 176
>
> So, I won't change the dependency for now.
>
> Thomas
>

Actually qtoctave 0.8.2 works out the compatibility with octave 3.2. So
this bug should really be a wishlist for updating qtoctave to 0.8.2

Gordon

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