Bug#607289: New gnuplot upstream version available 4.6

[Agustin Martin]

retitle 607289 New upstream version available 4.6
thanks

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:43:01AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> Package: gnuplot
> Version: 4.4.0-1.1
> Followup-For: Bug #607289

> Inbetween gnuplot 4.6 is out, 

Already released,

New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.6
======================================================

* NEW individual plots can be toggled on/off by clicking on the key sample
    (wxt, svg, canvas, qt, win)
* NEW syntax allowing column selection by matching a string in the first
line
* NEW syntax supporting multi-line blocks of code delimited by curly braces
    if (<cond>) { ... } else { ... }
    do for [...] { ... }
    while (<cond>) { ... }
* NEW summation expression:   sum [<var> = <beg> : <end>] <something>
* NEW nested iteration e.g. "plot for [i=1:5] for [j=1:5]"
* NEW explicit justification for tic labels, e.g. "set xtics right"
* NEW time formats can handle fractional seconds (microsecond precision)
* NEW time() function returns current time
* NEW hidden3d supports "with impulses"
* NEW hidden3d supports arrow style parameters for "with vectors"
* NEW user-definable linetypes
* NEW plot style "with boxplot"
* NEW plot style "with circles" allows start/end angles for each arc
* NEW plot style "with ellipses"
* NEW plot style "with fillsteps"
* NEW qt terminal driver 
* NEW epscairo terminal driver
* NEW context terminal driver
* NEW cairolatex terminal driver
* NEW variable (per-data point) color for additional plot styles
* NEW "set key opaque" produces a key with an opaque background
* NEW ISO-IEC-80000 prefixes (ki Mi Gi etc) available as gprintf formats %b
* %B
* NEW encodings cp950 cp1251
* NEW option "set fit quiet"
* NEW option "kdensity2d" for two-dimensional kernel density plots
* NEW configuration option --without-bitmap-terminals (see note in INSTALL)
* NEW polar mode raxis, rtics, rrange, log-scaling, bounded filledcurves
* NEW Shift-JIS encoding recognized by postscript, gd, svg, and win
* terminals
* NEW windows terminal supports encodings
* NEW mouse tracking for SVG terminal
* NEW tab-completion for builtin readline
* NEW windows terminal can save graph as EMF file
* NEW cubehelix scheme for color palettes
* NEW localisation support for Windows help and menu file
* NEW Windows installer
* NEW shared initialization file $GNUPLOT_SHARE_DIR/gnuplotrc
* FIX length estimation of UTF-8 strings
* FIX accurate placement of color boundaries in the colorbar
* FIX Built-in readline handles UTF-8 encoding
* FIX asin(sin(z)) == z for complex z
* FIX default configuration does not initialize from ./.gnuplot
* CHANGE 3D zoom using middle mouse button is now a logarithmic response
* CHANGE 3D impulses are now always drawn from z=0
* CHANGE remove vestigial code supporting Amiga, Apollo, and 16-bit
* MSDOS/WIN
* CHANGE remove obsolete drivers unixplot and gnugraph
* CHANGE extend formats x/X/o/O to 64 bits if necessary to represent the
* value
* CHANGE "set palette maxcolors" no longer fights with "set palette defined"
* CHANGE javascript support for HTML5 canvas does not use global variables
* CHANGE Built-in readline DEL recognized as forward-delete
* (system-dependent)
* CHANGE Built-in readline ^W deletes previous full or partial word
* CHANGE wgnuplot text window supports wrapping of long lines
* CHANGE new Windows help file format (chm)
* CHANGE copy graph to clipboard as enhanced metafile in windows terminal
* CHANGE improved windows terminal driver
* CHANGE hidden3d top/bottom surface colors taken from linetype, not line
* style


> please really consider to update it to newer.

+1

Cc'ing debian-science in case someone there wants to care of this. I am a
bit busy now, but if I find a time slot I may look at this, even if only to
orphan the package and prepare a QA upload in the meantime. Cannot promise,
so better if someone else tries this.

Please note that there is also an Ubuntu 4.4.3-0u3 package. Did not look at
it, but depending on its quality may be useful to use it and/or keep track
of it.

christophe.trophime wrote:
> Trying to acces git repository I end up with an error
> 
> """
> fatal: http://git.brad-smith.co.uk/git/debian/pkg-gnuplot.git/info/refs
> not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
> """

Note that git repo at PTS (and debian/control file) is wrong (Already 
reported as

#596969 gnuplot: Wrong 'Vcs-Git' and 'Vcs-Browser' values in control file.

I found a valid git repo at

http://git.brad-smith.co.uk/git/debian/gnuplot.git

and I vaguely remember to have found one at gitorius/github/somewhere else,
but can no longer find it.

Above repo contains only debian changes, no upstream branch. 

Regards,

-- 
Agustin