Bug#400214: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#400214: octave2.1-forge: include top-level dir /octave2.1-forge/

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Nov 25 06:00:52 CET 2006


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:43:13PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 24.11.2006, 14:49 +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> > Package: octave2.1-forge
> > Version: 2006.03.17+dfsg1-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Jusitification: FHS violation

> > Hello Debian Octave Group,

> > The ia64 package includes a top-level directory ./octave2.1-forge/

> >From the build logs of ia64 (caballero) and sparc (mrpurply):

> 	"make: octave-config: Command not found"

> (This results in an empth xpath setting, which is responsible for this
> breakage). 

> Well, I suspect it's the following: 

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg01566.html

> caballero seems to have been fixed, so a rebuild would be enough. 

Please fix your package instead to fail to build when there is a problem
with octave-config, instead of misbuilding in this fashion.

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