[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#400214: octave2.1-forge: include top-level dir /octave2.1-forge/

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > > > The ia64 package includes a top-level directory ./octave2.1-forge/

> > > >From the build logs of ia64 (caballero) and sparc (mrpurply):

> > > 	"make: octave-config: Command not found"

> > > (This results in an empth xpath setting, which is responsible for this
> > > breakage). 

> > > Well, I suspect it's the following: 

> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg01566.html

> > > caballero seems to have been fixed, so a rebuild would be enough. 

> > Please fix your package instead to fail to build when there is a problem
> > with octave-config, instead of misbuilding in this fashion.

> Yes, and then?

And then the bug in octave2.1-forge is fixed, and there's something I can
point to in bugging the buildd admins to fix the chroot.

In any case, it's not an appropriate use of a binNMU to rebuild on ia64 when
there's still a sourceful bug that allowed this misbuild in the first place.

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