New Octave support

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> [2018-02-01 15:43]:

> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 09:57:26AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I made the appropriate changes in Git for autodep8, in the branch "octave". 
>> If there is no objection, I propose to upload a new version of the package 
>> to unstable.
>
> As far as I am concerned you own the octave support and can do whatever 
> you want with it (as long as the generated tests exercise the installed 
> packages and not the source tree).

The dh_octave_check script that is launched by the new octave support is 
a slightly modified version of the check-pkg script in the octave-pkg-dev 
package, so that it exercise the installed packages and not the source 
tree, as you require.
>
>> Please, tell me which version number should be used (0.11 or 0.10.1).
>
> 0.11. I like to reserve the third component for bug fixes.

Ok.

>> Also, tell me if the following Lintian warnings should be addressed in 
>> the upcoming upload:
>>
>> P: autodep8 source: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version 9
>> I: autodep8 source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.1.0 (current is 4.1.3)
>
> Yes, if can work on them, please do.

Ok, will do.

Thanks,

Rafael