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

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Tue Nov 28 03:15:32 CET 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:29:10PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 26.11.2006, 15:05 -0800 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> > > > 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.

> May I suggest a different approach: we uploaded a fixed version of
> octave2.1-forge, which already built fine. 

> We will upload a package of either octplot or semidef-oct which triggers
> the bug, so there's something to point to.

> These packages have the advantage of 
>  - no reported bugs and an up-to-date version in testing and
>  - they build fast,

> so if the chroot doesn't get fixed, there are no consequences for etch
> and other architectures don't have to build time-consuming packages (for
> octplot, the build time is about a factor 8 less on AMD64 than for
> octave2.1-forge).

Fair enough.  Please let me know when you have one of these other packages
uploaded.

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