[Pkg-octave-devel] Versioning the dependency on octave for the OF packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-03-09 21:32]:
>
>> Note that currently this improvement is not really needed since there is
>> no pre-3.6 octave package in Debian (the 3.2 package has a different
>> name: octave3.2), [...]
>
> There is a virtual package called octave and octave3.2 provides it.  I
> would guess that an arch:all OF package with "Depends: octave" would
> be satisfied by octave3.2

Thanks for pointing this.

I therefore intend to upload a new version of octave-pkg-dev tonight,
before we upload any arch:all OF package (so far we did not if I am
right). Because otherwise arch:all packages would migrate too soon to
testing.

>> It would also be useful to exploit the dependency versioning between
>> Forge packages, for similar reasons.
>
> This is currently implemented in octave-pkg-helper, which parses
> DESCRIPTION and emits the appropriate versioned dependencies on the other
> OF packages when replacing ${octave:Depends}.  I wrote that code a while
> ago and have forgotten it.

I somehow overlooked that feature. Thanks for reminding me that you
already implemented it.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
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