[Pkg-octave-devel] Adding an Octave-dependent software into Debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2009-02-23 11:44]:

> Basically Dynare consists of three parts:
> - a preprocessor (written in C++) which parses a text file containing  
> the model description, and dumps Octave/Matlab intermediary files
> - a collection of Octave/Matlab routines
> - a few dynamically loadable libraries (DLL), called from  
> Octave/Matlab, for time-critical algorithms
> 
> Historically Dynare has been developed and used under Matlab. With a  
> few minor changes we made it run under GNU Octave 3.0 (although a few  
> features are still problematic).
> 
> I would like to make Dynare enter the official Debian project. I have  
> already created a Debian package for the latest stable version of  
> Dynare (see http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/InstallOnDebianOrUbuntu).  
> However note that my packaging is probably not suitable for direct  
> entry into Debian, because it creates both Octave and Matlab DLLs, the  
> latter being obviously not desirable for a Debian package.
> 
> I have ideas on how to improve the packaging, and of course I would be  
> willing to do the necessary work for creating a 100% policy-compliant  
> package.
> 
> Do you think that I should open a RFP bug? Do you know of anyone who  
> would be willing to become a sponsor for this?

Since Dynare is so tightly related to Octave, you could join the DOG (Debian
Octave Group) and add your initial packaging work to our SVN repository.
that way, we could work in a collaborative way towards integrating Dynare
into Debian.  

At any rate, a ITP bug should be filled for the package.

-- 
Rafael