From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Mar 13 20:30:51 2004 Subject: Re: Gnuplot 3.8 under Debian (Was: Bug in Octave 2.1.57?) From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: Thimo Neubauer Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel , "John W. Eaton" , Radu Cornea , bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:29:31 -0600 On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:54:57AM +0100, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > Am 13.03.2004 um 10:17 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > Recently, I needed a newer gnuplot for another project and emailed our > > friendly Gnuplot maintainer who pointed me to an 'internal' package at his > > university, obtainable via the apt-get sources list line > > > > deb http://hal.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/debian/ iwr/ > > > > Thimo says that he is in a holding pattern waiting for the new gnuplot to be > > released. While that is a reasonable position, it is also reasonable to > > expect a new gnuplot within Debian as the code is out =:-) So let's petition > > him -- I'm cc'ing this to him. OTOH the unofficial apt-get.org site lists a > > 3.8 package, try http://apt-get.org and goto 'search', which then shows > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~thimo/gnuplot-woody ./ > > > > Now, both these point to Thimo's work. So maybe we should just ask him if a > > newer Gnuplot can be had for unstable/testing. Thimo? > > Actually, I've uploaded my new package to unstable a week ago and > created the woody-backport you've found via apt-get.org. As I've split > gnuplot into more packages (gnuplot-x11 contains the X-driver so that > low-end computers may generate graphics without having to install X) > it needs manual intervention to get into the archive... don't know if > I should nag the ftp-masters about this or if I should wait another > week... Very, very nice! Thanks for the heads-up, Thimo. I had a bunch of either new or split-off packages (with parts that are hence 'new'), and it has been my experience that it takes pretty much precisely ten days until the ftpmasters insert the packages. So wait a few more days, and nag if it didn't move after 11 or 12 days. Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------