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

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Wed, Jul 11 2012, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> wrote:
> * Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> [2012-07-11 13:23]:
>
>> 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
>
> In the octave-pkg-dev package there is even a script called
> make-octave-forge-debpkg that automatically generates the debian/* files
> when launched inside the unpacked directory of an OF package.

Great!  That's just what I was looking for!  Thanks so much Jordi and
Rafael!

jamie.
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