[Pkg-octave-devel] BTS status for the DOG

[Thomas Weber]

Hi
> Would you be willing to take the lead on this, please?  Although I doubt
> that a new octaviz package would be eligible for ionclusion in 2.1r1, it
> is maybe worth trying to ask the release manager (is he still Martin
> Schulze).
I sent a mail to Joey (Martin Schulze).

> If that does not work, we might provide a backported version for sarge in
> the DOG website.  For that, it is necessary to rebuild the package in a
> sarge chroot.  For the moment, I have only a testing and a unstable
> chroots in my system.  Any volunteer?
What needs to be done? A have a pure sarge machine (x86) around, is a
simple 'dpkg-buildpackage' enough?
(I've already done this and the package works, so my question is more in
the direction of signing the package).

Regards
	Thomas