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

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

Am Freitag, den 24.11.2006, 21:00 -0800 schrieb Steve Langasek: 
> 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.

Yes, and then? A new octave2.1-forge package wouldn't build and the old
one be removed. Note that Octaviz failed to build on these buildds for
several months without anybody caring.

We will probably introduce the same workaround in this package as in
Octaviz, although a fixed chroot would be really nice.

	Thomas