[Pkg-octave-devel] Presentation of Debian Science/Octave/Scilab/Scicomp, roundtable on free software

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Rafael

thank you for your input,

a quick comment

>>   - common issues faced during software packaging( licensing, technical
>> issues, build system, upstream...), eg. Salomé issues
>
> We have very little licensing problems, since most of our packages are under
> the GPL.  Usually, our packages need very few patches.  The upstream authors
> are quite involved with us.  The members of the DOG participate quite
> actively in the upstream mailing lists.

I think that's a very good example of  what should be done. If
upstream and debian are communicating properly then
the process is really smooth and it generally improves also the
software upstream (build system, porting, packaging,...)

thanks again & Bestregards
C.