[Pkg-octave-devel] Moving to git-buildpackage for octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 7 November 2011 17:31, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone still have patches that are not yet pushed into the octave
> git repository? I would like to change it to git-buildpackage layout,
> with just the 3.2.4 sources (which suits fine, as stable has 3.2.4 as
> well).
>
> Oh, and if you are against that change, please say so as well.

I think we should use hg since Octave itself uses hg. For projects
that closely maintain packaging with upstream, it works better to use
a unified DVCS (no, hg-git is not a solution).

Sadly, mercurial-buildpackage is badly maintained, so perhaps this
isn't a realistic solution. I still have my own packaging under hg.
Hm, I suppose I should publish it. I'm really busy these days, but
perhaps during the week I can do it.

- Jordi G. H.