[Pkg-octave-devel] Need builds of octave3.0 and python-scipy

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:35:41PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-15 18:45]:
> 
> > On 14/03/08 02:19 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > Is there a way to accelerate the auto-builds of octave3.0 on alpha and hppa,
> > 
> > You could build them yourself on one of the porter machines (Sorry, I
> > don't have access there and even with access, I can't upload octave3.0
> > yet).
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-porter-guidelines
> 
> I would prefer that the people involved with the porters or the release team
> itself do the bin-NMUs for us.  I am quite short in free time now and I
> would prefer to invest my time on having the packages ready for the lenny
> release.  BTW, it would be good to finish the work on the octave-forge pkgs,
> such that I can upload them.  I will take a look at this soon and upload the
> ones which are ready.  I think that there are many packages that need better
> descriptions and inclusion of debian/check.m files. 

Yeh, most of the packages need better descriptions and some of the
packages do not have any test cases to perform, at least a grep of the
word test in the .m files of some packages showed no results.

I am also short of time at the moment, have to deliver a thesis soon
but I will try to do a bit of work once in a while when I am tired of
the thesis :-)

Laters

Oli