[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 2.9.10, octave-forge with new pkg system: Call for volunteers

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 11:36:09 CET 2007


Hi, 

Am Donnerstag, den 29.03.2007, 11:51 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:

> A new version of octave-forge has been released yesterday that uses the new
> Octave package manager.  This means that Debian users will be able to
> install the octave-forge packages without using Debian's octave2.9-forge.
> Therefore, we should restructure the Debian packaging system for
> octave-forge, perhaps along the same lines as in cran2deb [2].

I had a cursory look at pkg.m. I don't think we will come too far
without patching it (it uses the share/ directory structure hard-coded;
or maybe I overlooked something).


> This is a quite big project and I cannot commit myself in undertaking it
> soon.  It would be great if people could step forward and help us to
> accomplish this task.  I have not yet a clear idea on how we should proceed,
> so it would be good to discuss about the alternatives here in
> pkg-octave-devel.

Urgs, cran2deb.pl has > 1600 lines. I seriously hope we can find
something simpler, otherwise this will be a maintenance nightmare. 

	Thomas




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