[Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.11 is out

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-05-23 14:40]:

> There are some variables (savefiles, save-files) in the debian/rules. Is my 
> understanding correct that they are only there to prevent building the 
> documentation on every architecture?

I think that the savefiles variable and the save-files rules are there for
avoiding changes to sneak into the diff.gz file in successive builds of the
package.

> I would prefer to get rid of these. 

If the problem above is not real, then please get rid of them.

> Our rules file is cluttered, [snip]

I can only agree with you.  If you can remove the cruft in debian/rules
without losing functionality, it will be great.

> [snip] building the documentation doesn't take much time compared to the
> whole build process and it's some sort of QA for texinfo on every platform.

Notice that building the documentation should only happen when binary-indep
is called (after all, octave*-{doc,htmldoc,info} are Arch: all).  In the
past, we have received complaints from the buildd admins that the
documentation packages were built by the binary target.  Please, do not
revert the current situation.

-- 
Rafael