[Pkg-octave-devel] Issues regarding octave-interval 1.5.0-1

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-06-06 23:19]:

> 1. The package can't be build on some platforms anymore (mipsel and 
> hurd-i386 so far) because the creation of one particular plot for the 
> manual requires too much memory for buildd. Can I do something about it 
> except removing the plot from the manual?
>
> 2. Lintian says “arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share” again. /usr/share 
> is at 2.2 MB, so it's a little bit above the threshold. I don't want to 
> ask the question of splitting the package into octave-interval-common 
> again.

My recollection is that we decided to rely on the threshold defined by 
Lintian for splitting the package.  If the threshold is reached, then I 
think the package should be split.

> However, if we did split the package: Would the arch-independent binary 
> be built on all platforms? If not, could this be a solution to the 
> out-of-memory issue above?

You will probably need to adjust debian/rules, in order to have 
"make -C doc manual.html" invoked only for the building of the 
architecture-independent package.

Rafael