[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#452529: Bug#452529: several new upstream versions available

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2007-11-27 16:25]:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:39:39PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Your rules file needs some work. Your postinst/prerm approach is
> > interesting; I hadn't thougt of that. 
> 
> Yeh, I can imagine that this is not a good rules file since this is
> the first one I make :-)
> 
> But what is missing or could be done better?
> 
> This seems to work ok and I can't see anything that could be done
> better.
> 
> Please advise :-)

I just came back from my trip to North-America and had no time to look at
your code yet.  However, since you asking for advice, I hope that you are
aware of the previous discussion in the mailing list (e.g. [1], [2]) the
Wiki page [3] we started for doing the brainstorm.  Also of interest is the
solution found by the R Debian team to package the components of CRAN [4].

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2007-May/002349.html
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2007-May/002350.html
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/OctavePackaging
[4] http://wiki.debian.org/?AliothPkgBioc

-- 
Rafael