[Pkg-octave-devel] octaviz FTBFS

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:02:13PM +0000, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:52:52PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:48:38PM +0000, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> > > I had a look at the status page for this group and there are some
> > > lintian issues waiting to be resolved and octaviz has two of them
> > > (probably easily fixed) so I tried to build it on a fresh pdebuild
> > > environment and it failed when applying the patches.
> > 
> > How did you build it? I get a warning about a patch offset of two lines,
> > but that's it.
> 
> I just issued sudo pdebuild in the trunk dir of the svn. I had just
> done a pbuilder update so my chroot is up to date.
> 
> > Spending much time on Octaviz is probably not worth the effort, there's
> > no upstream development of it anymore.
> 
> Ok .. will try something else out then.

Hey, if you have some C++ knowledge, you could take over upstream
development. I still think Octaviz has some pretty cool feature.

	Thomas