[Pkg-octave-devel] RFS: QtOctave -- A Qt front-end to Octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail.com> [2007-06-17 21:38]:

> (Note to octave-help list subscribers who may be interested: I
> attempted to stick to Debian policy after all, which is why I'm
> attempting to add this to Debian's repositories. The dotdeb works in
> Debian's current testing, and should be easily built for other
> distributions. Note that Qt4 is required to build and run the
> package.)
> 
> Hello, Debian mentors.
> 
> This is my first attempt to upload a Debian package and the first
> package I've ever built believing to be adhering to Debian policy. I
> don't even know what the exact etiqutte for RFSing or where all those
> people are getting the RFS template or how exactly I should upload
> things.
> 
> The Debianised source tarball is found here:
> 
>      http://www.cimat.mx/~jordi/debian/qtoctave_0.5.1-1.debian.tar.gz
> 
> The dotdeb I built in Lenny (but which *should* build in unstable
> unless libqt4-dev is more heavily patched than I think) is found here:
> 
>      http://www.cimat.mx/~jordi/debian/qtoctave_0.5.1-1_i386.deb
> 
> It is mostly Lintian-clean, save for #428403 and a missing manpage for
> widgetserver whose purpose I have not yet discerned.

Since this regards packaging of Octave-related software for Debian, then the
appropriate place to discuss the issue is in the pkg-octave-devel mailing
list [1] of the Debian Octave Group [2].

I am Cc:ing this message there.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-octave-devel
[2] http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/

Thanks,

-- 
Rafael