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

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

Am Sonntag, den 26.11.2006, 15:05 -0800 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> > > 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?
> 
> And then the bug in octave2.1-forge is fixed, and there's something I can
> point to in bugging the buildd admins to fix the chroot.
> 
> In any case, it's not an appropriate use of a binNMU to rebuild on ia64 when
> there's still a sourceful bug that allowed this misbuild in the first place.

May I suggest a different approach: we uploaded a fixed version of
octave2.1-forge, which already built fine. 

We will upload a package of either octplot or semidef-oct which triggers
the bug, so there's something to point to.

These packages have the advantage of 
 - no reported bugs and an up-to-date version in testing and
 - they build fast,

so if the chroot doesn't get fixed, there are no consequences for etch
and other architectures don't have to build time-consuming packages (for
octplot, the build time is about a factor 8 less on AMD64 than for
octave2.1-forge).

	Thomas