On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> control: tag -1 patch, pending > >> Hi, I've uploaded an nmu to delayed/10 remove the libxp dependency. >> matlab versions have not required this for 4 years now, and this is >> one of two packages remaining with the dependency. > > I am not the main maintainer of this package but having experience with > it, Would you mind just moving it into Recommends so we would not need > backport-specific patches: we are providing this package across wide > range of Debian/Ubuntu releases (so libxp6 would be present) and > some people might still use elderly Matlabs. So with it in Recommends > we would please Debian gods and make users of older Matlabs happy.
Unfortunately that won't really work since the recommends will become a policy violation once libxp is removed. I would recommend adding some info to the docs or providing a fetching script to help users that are insistent on using old versions. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
