[Pkg-octave-devel] New upstream version for the octave-forge pkgs

[Thomas Weber]

On 04/05/08 15:05 +0200, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> in the svn directory octave-audio/trunk/ and I get 
> 
> This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be
> an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent
> directory;
> (expected octave-audio_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz or trunk.orig)
> continue anyway? (y/n) n
> 
> Isnt the octave-pkg-dev script supposed to fetch the tarball for me or
> am I misunderstanding how to build the package?

No, the script won't download a new version automatically. Some of our
buildds don't have an internet connection in the build chroots (that's
intentionally) and so they couldn't download the tarball anyway.

You can use the uscan command to get the latest tarball.

	Thomas