[Pkg-octave-devel] Compiling Octaviz in unstable

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2005-12-11 19:13]:

> Am Samstag, den 10.12.2005, 20:23 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > 1) Apply the patch mentioned above.
> Will do.

Good.  Let us hope the patch will eventually be integrated upstream.

> > 2) Migrate fully to CDBS (for now, it uses only simple-patchsys.mk).  We
> >    recently built the octplot package using a pure CDBS debian/rules.  It
> >    really rocks!
> This will definitely take some time on my side; there's no 'cmake' class
> or rules file in CDBS and I'm totally unexperienced in 'serious'
> packaging.

Just keep the cmake-related code in debian/rules as it is now.  As a
starting point, you could include debhelper.mk and see what can be
removed from debian/rules (probably the binary-arch target and parts of
the clean and install targets).

> > 3) Check whether the build-dependency can be lesstif2-dev instead of
> >    lesstif-dev.   
> Is there anything besides a test build to check this?

No, this is the simplest way to check it.

Thanks for your efforts on octaviz, I really appreciate it.

-- 
Rafael