[Pkg-octave-devel] what replaces octave-depends?

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Sun Apr 15 19:48:52 UTC 2012


* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-04-15 21:42]:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > Short answer: no, there is no replacement for octave-depends.  Long
> > answer: make the fsl package just suggest octave, instead of using
> > ${octave:Depends}.  If you know that the *.m files included in the fsl
> > package only work with a minimal version of Octave, then add the a
> > appropriate versioned releationship.
> > 
> > Also, remove from debian/rules the line containing:
> > 
> >     include /usr/share/octave/debian/defs.make
> > 
> > The defs.make file does not exist in the Debian package for Octave 3.6.
> 
> Just a short clarification (because I actually thought we would have a
> a problem here): 'defs.make' still exists at the place above, it's now
> part of liboctave-dev.

Thanks for the heads up, I have overlooked it.

Rafael



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