[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#452529: Bug#452529: several new upstream versions available

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:33:54AM +0000, Thomas Weber wrote:
> End users are not supposed to compile any code during deb installation.
> If I remember the discussions on Octave's maintainer list correctly,
> already built packages should not be rebuilt at install time. It
> obviously means we can't move pkg.m into octave2.9-headers, but that
> should not be such a big problem (it will just be change from "why is
> mkoctfile not working with my own code" to "why is pkg.m not working
> with my own packages").
> 
> Anyway, even if Ólafur's code works only for pure .m file packages, that
> would be an improvement.

I think you are supposed to be able to get the source of the package
with apt-get source and build it on your machine. But this should be
easely solvable by setting the right Build-Depends in the control
file, right? That should pull in the right tools and -dev files as
soon as you use the debian tools to build the package.

Best regards

Oli