Bug#749833: scilab: Scilab include non-free codes

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 15/12/2014 15:54, Vincent COUVERT wrote:
> Hello,
> On 12/14/2014 10:01 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> On 13/12/2014 11:49, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:22:51 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 30/05/14 at 11:29 +0900, mejiko wrote:
>>>>> 1) "scilab-<version>/modules/polynomials/src/fortran/rpoly.f"
>>> There is work in progress upstream (status 13 Dec 2014: Review in
>>> Progress). The amount of code is not much, but I am not able to judge
>>> the workings. Review is needed if this should go into Debian for
>>> Jessie.
>> Indeed. I don't have more news. Maybe Vincent knows more.
> We are still working on it and we have to check the results of this
> new implementation.
OK.

>>>>> 2) "scilab-<version>/modules/randlib/src/c/fsultra.c"
>>> This file is currently not commented on in the upstream bug report.
>> Yes, I have to remove this algorithm from the package. It is not really
>> used and it should be easy to get ride of it.
> What do you think about adding a compilation option for it?
We would still be shipping non free code. Not sure it is the best solution.

Sylvestre