[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#665326: confused by disapparance of octave-depends (nothing in changelog)

Yaroslav Halchenko debian at onerussian.com
Fri Mar 23 02:20:10 UTC 2012


Package: liboctave-dev
Version: 3.6.1-4
Severity: minor

I have a package (not yet in Debian, some licensing issues yet to
resolve) which builds some .mex's:

http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/octave-psychtoolbox-3.html

I had build-depends on octave-pkg-dev (which depended on octave3.2-headers) and
used octave-depends to substitute octave:Depends .  Now the package FTBFS in
sid and it is not transparent where octave-depends are gone/what they are
replaced with...

I see
 Nothing in changelog
 commit msgs for its removal (from debian/ or debian/in) were as non-descriptive.

As I understand -- now octave-depends is no longer needed and we could
simply depend on octave (although for me due to backporting I would need to
maintain both ways).  

I still think it would be worthwhile to mention this transition in the
changelog.Debian or NEWS.

Thanks in advance


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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