[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging octave-forge 2006-03-17

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 
Am Dienstag, den 21.03.2006, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> There is a new version (2006-03.17) of octave-forge available.  Could
> someone try to build the Debian package for it and commit the changes to
> SVN?  

If nobody steps forward, I will give it a try over the weekend.


> Now that the netcdf transition is over and 2006-01-28-2 finally
> entered testing, it is a good time for a new upload.

Ehm, you are aware that octave-forge is part of the current hdf5
transition? Which means we can prepare the update, but the actual upload
shouldn't happen before somewhen next week.


> In particular, we should check whether the following debian/patches
> are still needed:
> 
>     50_extra-pdb-sinclude
>     50_main-set-makefile
>     50_make-clean
>     50_makefile-syntax-fix
>     50_make-pattern-rules

Will do. 


> Also, we should try to close the following bug reports:
> 
>     #357651: FTBFS with G++ 4.1: misc errors

This one is UPSTREAM; David Bateman is aware of it (it's in his part of
the code), but currently hasn't gcc-4.1 available. I've just sent him a
link to the log.


>     #295395: octave-forge: Replacing a submatrix of a sparse matrix

This is probably WONTFIX. The sparse code has been integrated into
Octave 2.9, so I don't expect an upstream fix for octave-forge. And
David has clearly stated that it was too much work for octave-forge.

Unless you object, I will tag the bugs accordingly.


> The following one is not going to be closed any soon, but I hope that
> Colin will resume the dual 2.1/2.9 build in the near future:
> 
>     #352150: octave-forge: depends on octave2.1, could it also depend on 2.9?

So should I try the octave-forge build for 2.1 or 2.9? 

Regards
	Thomas