[Pkg-octave-devel] OctavePackaging

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-05-14 09:43]:

> Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 00:00:04 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/AliothPkgBioc
> 
> If we go down that road, I'll stop. cran2deb.pl is an almost 2000 lines
> long perl script. Sorry, but I'd rather download the packages from
> Sourceforge and build them locally just for myself than having such
> maintenance scripts.

I fully agree with you.

> I already have the feeling that building the packages will be more work than 
> building Octave itself, which is a strong sign for me that we are heading in 
> the wrong direction.

Let us try something simple that works.  If it becomes too complicated, then
we could consider abandoning the project.

-- 
Rafael