Ubuntu
matlab-support package

Description of matlab-support is misleading

Bug #1043317 reported by Thijs van Dijk on 2012-08-29

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	alpha oumar bah
	matlab-support (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

In the Ubuntu Software Center, the package matlab-support is listed as "MATLAB - Scientific computing environment".
This name implies that the package installs matlab itself.

However, only when you read the extended description of the package will one discover the text "This package does not provide MATLAB. Instead, it configures an existing MATLAB installation to integrate more comfortably in a Debian installation."

This would be a minor inconvenience of not for bug 1025648, which makes it virtually impossible to cancel installation without somehow obtaining a copy of matlab.
Bug 1025648 needs to be fixed, but in the meantime maybe it's a good idea to rename this package to, for instance, "Support files for Matlab".

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Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2012-08-29:

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-07:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in matlab-support (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Julian Taylor (jtaylor) on 2013-03-09

no longer affects:

matlab-support (Debian)

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) on 2013-03-10

Changed in matlab-support (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2013-03-10:

Hmmm.... The problem seems to be that this package ships a desktop file for matlab, causing Software Center to present it as such. Opening at task for app-install-data-ubuntu as IIRC, such things can be manually overridden there.

Changed in matlab-support (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-04-12:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

alpha oumar bah (alphaoumarbah6) on 2017-02-22

Changed in app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → alpha oumar bah (alphaoumarbah6)