[Pkg-octave-devel] questions on packaging an octave toolbox

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 11 July 2012 13:07, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11 2012, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> wrote:
>> Maybe are you looking for this section of the Octave reference manual:
>>
>>  http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Packages.html#Packages
>
> Hi, Sébastien.  This documentation is unfortunately not for Debian
> packaging, and I'm trying to build a Debian package.  Can you point me
> to a reference for Debian packaging?  Are helper scripts available if
> the toolbox is already packaged in the form that you refer to?

Yeah, if you already have a package in the OF format, it's almost
trivial to create a Debian package from it. Look at the packaging for,
say, octave-signal:

    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave-signal.git;a=summary

Most of the heavy work is done by the octave-pkg-dev package, which
makes debian/rules almost trivial:

    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave-signal.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=cc1bd1b064e0483e3a3d3c966cf05ab3c7a0ff41;hb=d92c8f02339fc71c4c44078d3518854eb647aa70

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.