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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy |
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Sat, 1 Dec 2012 19:55:12 -0500 |
On 1 December 2012 08:52, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
> For example, how do you install a package that is not in Octave-Forge
> nor packaged by the debian group?
Such a package does not exist unless that package is too unstable to
be in Debian, in which case it is a development package, so it is "a
dev thing".
As a general rule, Debian users do not want source distribution, and
pkg.m is by necessity source distribution. Source distribution moves
the burden of building from the distributors to the users; pkg.m
cannot solve the distribution problem to the standards which Debian
requires, only Debian's apt-get can do that.
- Jordi G. H.