Bug#540406: the wxt driver deserves its own package

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Ivan,

thanks for contribution! I have committed your changes to a separate branch of
gnuplot git-repo [1]. Feel free to send patches in git-format.

Your changes need to be precisely tested before merging and uploading.
I will unlikely do a new upload before release, if no RC-bugs appear.

Cheers,

Anton

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/gnuplot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/shmakov

2012/7/19 Ivan Shmakov <oneingray at gmail.com>:
>
>  > As I've just checked, while the ‘x11’ and ‘qt’ drivers are provided
>  > as external binaries (under lib/gnuplot/), the ‘wxt’ one is
>  > apparently compiled into the main gnuplot binary itself.
>
>  > If I'm right in my guess that the library dependencies of the latter
>  > on the Qt libraries are superfluous (I hope to check it the next
>  > week), then that may be one more reason to keep the ‘wxt’ driver
>  > separate.
>
>         Unfortunately, it's not the case, as the implementation of the
>         ‘qt’ terminal (as part of the main Gnuplot binary) itself relies
>         on QLocalSocket, and thus depends on the Qt libraries.
>
>         So, I'd like to bring back my original suggestion:
>
>         • the ‘gnuplot’ package is no longer transitional, and contains
>           everything from the former ‘gnuplot-x11’ package, except the
>           ‘gnuplot_x11’ driver binary;
>
>         • the ‘gnuplot-nox’ package is no longer built with
>           ‘--without-x’;
>
>         • the new ‘gnuplot-x11’ package only provides the aforementioned
>           driver binary, and depends on either ‘gnuplot’ or
>           ‘gnuplot-nox’ for the main Gnuplot binary.
>
>         FWIW, I've built the packages as described, and put them there:
>
> http://waterlily.siamics.net/~ivan/mini-dinstall/1gray-misc/amd64/
> http://waterlily.siamics.net/~ivan/mini-dinstall/1gray-misc/source/
>
>         A brief testing has revealed no new issues, but I'm yet to
>         document my changes properly, and still hope that these changes
>         could be accepted for Debian Wheezy.
>
>         TIA.
>
> PS.  Actually, there's a thing I haven't tested so far: should gnuplot
>         from gnuplot-nox be started with the DISPLAY environment
>         variable set, but without gnuplot-x11 installed, it may fail to
>         produce a nice error message.
>
> […]
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