[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#594906: Bug#594906: update octave-nan and bug fix

[Alois Schlögl]

On 08/30/2010 06:58 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 30 August 2010 10:49, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso<jordigh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>    
>> On 30 August 2010 10:35, Alois Schlögl<alois.schloegl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>      
>>> I've uploaded a new release to Octave.sf.net:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/NaN-2.0.4.tar.gz/download
>>> which was not picked up by debian.
>>>        
>> Thanks, I'll prepare an updated package.
>>      
> I see that the old version still shows up here:
>
>       http://octave.sourceforge.net/nan/index.html
>
> You might need to ping Søren Hauberg<soren at hauberg.org>  to update
> this page, as it's not completely automatically generated.

I've figured out a way to update this file myself.

>   Thomas
> Weber<tweber at debian.org>  has in fact updated this package's watch
> file, but I don't see this update in a release. However, we depend on
> the above link for determining the latest version of the NaN package.
>
>    

The latest centralized release of octave-forge packages was done in Jun 
2009(!!!).
I think Soren took over only after this date. Since then, packages were 
released only in an individual basis.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/

The debian watch file
     http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/wwiz_detail.php?id=33493299&type=watch
contains this:

version=3
http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html \
     http://downloads\.sourceforge\.net/octave/nan-([\d.]+)\.tar\.gz\?download


However http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html yields a 404 error. 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave resolves to 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/
and http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/nan-2.3.0.tar.gz
results in this error

     The "/nan-2.3.0.tar.gz" file could not be found or is not 
available. Please select another file.

Probably, this was caused by changes at directory structure of the 
sourceforge release system.
Because of this changes at sourceforge, it seems that the debian watch 
file might need some modification, as well.


>> The latest release of Octave-NaN is always available from here:
>> http://biosig-consulting.com/matlab/NaN/
>>      
> Do you want us to point our watch file to that location and bypass the
> Octave-Forge distribution? I would prefer not to, unless you think
> your distribution method is irreconcilable with the 'Forge
> distribution.
>    

I like to make it as simple as possible. This is currently not the case. 
I'm trying to keep the following links updated, each need manual 
interaction.
[1] https://mloss.org/software/view/206/
[2] http://biosig-consulting.com/matlab/NaN/
[3] 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/

I would appreciate, if we can find a way to simplify this. What is your 
suggestion for updating the debian octave-nan package with a smaller 
turn-around time ?
Is there a way that I can trigger the generation of a new octave-nan 
package (perhaps from the SVN-repository) for debian ?


    Alois