[Pkg-octave-devel] Filing ITPs for the octave-forge pkgs

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 10:17 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:

> That said, what is important for now is the interface. The language in which
> the internals are coded is a side issue.  Let's agree on the interface;
> please, comment on the following scheme.  With the current octave-pkg-dev in
> SVN, the steps for making a new octave-forge package are:
> 
> 1) Add build-dependency in debian/control (this should pull in debhelper,
>    cdbs, and octave*.*-headers):
>    
>    Build-Depends: octave-pkg-dev, libsomething-dev
>    
> 2) Add a single line to debian/rules:
> 
>    include /usr/share/octavc/debian/octave-pkg-dev.mk
>    
> 3) In debian/control, depend on the appropriate variables:
> 
>    Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${octave:Depends}
>    
> Is this okay with you?   

Generally yes, although I have some doubts regarding CDBS for the -forge
packages.

I also think we should check the description template with
debian-l10n-english. If there are no objections, I'll take that part.

	Thomas