[Pkg-octave-devel] Updating octave3.0 to Policy 3.8.0

[Thomas Weber]

On 23/06/08 21:53 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I: octave3.0: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 5492kB 19%
> N:
> N:   The package has a significant amount of architecture-independent data
> N:   in /usr/share, while it is an architecture-dependent package. This is
> N:   wasteful of mirror space and bandwidth, as we then end up with
> N:   multiple copies of this data, one for each architecture.
> N:
> N:   If the data in /usr/share is not architecture-independent, it is a
> N:   policy violation, and in this case, you should move that data
> N:   elsewhere.
> N:
> N:   See also:
> N:   http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practice
> N:   s#s-bpp-archindepdata
> 
> Although this is just Lintian "information" level, it is written above that
> this is a "policy violation".  
Only if this data is not architecture independent. Should be mostly .m
files.

> Should we move the /usr/share/octave/
> directory into an arch-indep package?  We could call it octave3.0-mscripts
> (or whatever) and make octave3.0 depend on it.  The downside of this is that
> the new upload will have to go through NEW and this may prevent the new
> package to enter testing before the freeze.  We may postpone this to lenny+1.

Lenny+1, definitely. 

	Thomas