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wxmaxima package

wxmaxima dependencies

Bug #86316 reported by Iain Nicol
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wxmaxima (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: wxmaxima

The binary package for wxmaxima should depend upon "maxima-share".

This is because functions available through wxMaxima require this package to be installed (e.g. Equations->Solve ODE).

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Mon Feb 19 16:58:52 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux Skye 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: packaging
Revision history for this message
Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn) wrote :

I can confirm this problem, not sure of the best fix.

We probably shouldn't add maxima-share as a dependency, since the program will basically run OK without it. But it should probably be a 'suggests' or 'recommends' (just as maxima itself recommends maxima-share)

Changed in wxmaxima:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

wxmaxima runs fine without it (just some features are missing), so should recommend it. However, wxmaxima depends on maxima, and maxima already recommends it. There's no reason for wxmaxima to recommend it too.

Changed in wxmaxima:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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