[Pkg-octave-devel] Some packages ported to gbp + new version of octave-pkg-dev

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> This is the first time I use git-buildpackage.  I think that other
> newbies should also be clearly informed about the packaging practices. 
> At the time I participate to the DOG, there was a (quite complete)
> document with the packaging guidelines.  I think that we can survive now
> with the wiki page, provided that the crucial information is present.
>
> BTW, I will also add a note on the about the use of git-dch for handling
> debian/changelog, as soon as I get used to it. 
>
> Another issue, should we require that the transitioned Octave-Forge
> packages respect the following?
>
>     * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3
>     * Bump debhelper compat level to 9
>     * Bump Build-Depends on octave-pkg-dev to >= 1.0.0
>       (or whichever number the next release has)

I think it would be good.

Also, I would recommend that all the packages that have already a
machine-readable debian/copyright upgrade to the finalized specification
(see [1]). It can be helpful to run "cme fix dpkg-copyright" from
package libconfig-model-perl.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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