But should it exit nicely if no matlab is present??? Absent matlab == matlab cannot be supported == error in my vision of how things should be handled in this package. Having it installed without error should provide some guarantee that Matlab is present so that dependent packages could rely on that.
If it is in the violation of some statute of the policy -- please let us know. Otherwise -- please wait for the main maintainer's opinion on this issue. The name and description of the package provide sufficient information to avoid installation "by accident". And if that happens, it should be removed then. On Sat, 09 Mar 2013, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 14:18 +0100, Julian Taylor a écrit : > > Package: matlab-support > > Version: 0.0.18 > > Severity: serious > > in a clean testing chroot: > > Setting up matlab-support (0.0.18) ... > > No matlab found and maybe running in non-interactive mode. No way out -- > > failing... > > dpkg: error processing matlab-support (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > matlab-support > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > The attached patch allows the package to install nicely even if MATLAB > is not present. Otherwise people who install the package by accident end > up with a dpkg error. > Julian: please confirm that it fixes the issue for you. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
