Control: tags -1 - patch Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 18:26 +0100, Michael Hanke a écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Sébastien Villemot > <sebast...@debian.org> wrote: > 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. > > > I see the problem, but I am not convinced this change is the > solution. Removing patch tag as a consequence. > If we make this package install successfully on a system without > Matlab, we need to > make any dependent package handle the situation of a missing matlab > itself -- potentially multiplying the effort. At the moment, any > package that depends on matlab-support can expect a functional matlab > installation to be present at config time. I confirm this for dynare-matlab which currently assumes that when matlab-support is correctly configured, there is a working MATLAB installation. I think we should first decide whether this issue is RC (because of Wheezy to be released soon), and this is indeed not obvious. It is of course expected that packages in "main" install fine in noninteractive mode and in a clean chroot. But matlab-support is different since it is in section "contrib" and is useless without some nonfree program (MATLAB) not present in Debian; in some sense MATLAB is a implicit dependency of matlab-support, so the current behavior also makes sense. Maybe the Release Team has an opinion on the RCness of this issue? -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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