[needs-packaging] Provide gnuplot with readline=gnu and history file

[Guillaume Martres]

Ubuntu's version of gnuplot is not complied with readline=gnu, nor with history list, for licensing reasons. But filename completion, as well as ctrl+left arrow etc is really essential for a reasonable comfort of use.

I need to recompile gnuplot-nox at each iteration of ubuntu. Since this problem is due to licensing problem, and very a annoying one, and regarding data (media...), gnuplot is an ideal candidate for inclusion in medibuntu.

Thanks for any help in that matter.

Damien

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

It might be harder than I thought, 'cause linking gnuplot to the gnu readline will be a gpl violation. For the history list, it looks like it is enabled by default, are you sure it's disabled and do you know why?

[Damien Challet (dchallet)]

On Monday 24 December 2007 12.04:16 Guillaume Martres wrote:
> It might be harder than I thought, 'cause linking gnuplot to the gnu
> readline will be a gpl violation.

there is indeed something of the kind lurking beneath this issue. But other
distributions (suse, mandrake) do compile gnuplot with readline=gnu. I
thought that the nature of medibuntu would allow for that.

> For the history list, it looks like it
> is enabled by default, are you sure it's disabled and do you know why?

you are right, it is enabled by default, my mistake.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Targetting for intrepid, there are already enough opened bugs for hardy.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Medibuntu focuses on multimedia, so gnuplot is not really a candidate for integration.