[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-18 10:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 18.07.2020 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> Am 18.07.2020 um 18:31 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>>> Am 18.07.2020 um 09:55 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>>>> Gnuplot version 5.4.0 is now available on Cygwin.  The upstream release
>>>> notes are available at:
>>>> http://www.gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_5_4.html
>>>> Cygwin Notes
>>>> ============
>>>> The tutorial has been removed from the 5.4 branch of gnuplot, so it is
>>>> no longer available in the package.
>>>> The ggi terminal has been dropped from the build.  I am considering
>>>> dropping both the gpic and the mif terminal in a further update as well.
>>>> The wxt terminal is now available.
>>>> The qt terminal still doesn't work on Cygwin due to either a Cygwin or
>>>> Qt5 bug that is still under investigation.  If you want to help, please
>>>> install the gnuplot-qt5 package and try to debug it.
>>>> The packaging has been changed to allow more fine-grained control over
>>>> dependencies.  Depending on which packages you install running plain
>>>> "gnuplot" will dispatch different executables via the alternatives
>>>> system.
>>>> The gnuplot-base package provides no GUI terminal at all and will
>>>> replace the gnuplot package unless you chose to install one of the other
>>>> feature packages, this variant is always directly available as
>>>> gnuplot-base.  This variant is most useful for scripted gnuplot
>>>> invocations and for using it interactively in MinTTY with the sixelgd
>>>> terminal.
>>>> The gnuplot-X11 package resembles the previous gnuplot package most
>>>> closely, the executable for this variant is gnuplot-X11 and depends on a
>>>> relatively small number of X11 libraries.
>>>> The gnuplot-wx package adds the wxt terminal and retains the X11
>>>> terminal.  The executable for this variant is gnuplot-wx and it depends
>>>> on an extensive list of GNOME libraries.
>>>> The gnuplot-qt package provides the qt terminal and retains the X11
>>>> terminal.  The executable for this variant is gnuplot-qt5 and of course
>>>> depends on Qt5 libraries.  Please note that while gnuplot-qt5 does
>>>> build, the qt terminal does not actually work yet, see above.

>>> running setup, gnuplot-base is updated from 5.4 rc2 to 5.4, but package
>>> gnuplot has vanished.

>> Errh, which you explained above, sorry. Anyhow, gnuplot.exe did not get
>> installed.

> OK, it's called gnuplot-base now. Is it a good idea to drop plain gnuplot as an
> invocation name?

Release notes suggest there should be a file /var/lib/alternatives/gnuplot to
define a symlink /bin/gnuplot to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot and that symlinks to
/bin/gnuplot-base.

Please check if /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh.done exists and completed
successfully in /var/log/setup.log.full or /var/log/setup.log and the
alternatives were created successfully, as above.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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