[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#391117: octplot: arch-independent .m-files under /usr/lib

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2006-10-25 21:51]:

> Am Donnerstag, den 05.10.2006, 01:26 +0200 schrieb Tormod Volden:
> > Package: octplot
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The files under /usr/lib/octplot are architecture-independent
> > and should rather be found under /usr/share.
> 
> I've submitted a patch for this upstream[1]. It changes configure.ac, so
> we need to run autoconf. Should this happen at build time (this might
> break on buildds) or should I do it 'at home' and accept the large diff
> this gives?

Well, the octave2.1 and octave2.9 call autoconf and this did not result in
many breakages.  I would prefer calling the autotools at build time rather
than shipping a large diff, which would actually be a patch.

> [1] http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1586151&forum_id=295323
> The patch is semi-accepted. 

We might also wait until the next release.

-- 
Rafael