[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#559617: Bug#559617: octave-ocs: Versioned Build-Depends on octave-pkg-dev not needed

[Thomas Weber]

package: octave-ocs
tags: 559617
thanks

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:06:27PM +0100, Kai Wasserbäch wrote:
> Package: octave-ocs
> Version: 0.0.3-1
> Severity: minor
> Justification: Complicates backporting unnecessarily.
> 
> Dear octave-ocs maintainer,
> as octave-ocs isn't in Debian stable I wanted to build it for stable, but this
> wasn't possible without removing the versioned Build-Depends on octave-pkg-dev.
> And by this I found out, that the versioned dependency isn't needed (anymore?),
> the version found in stable is sufficient. Therefore I kindly request, that the
> next upload of octave-ocs removes this versioned dependency or at least reduces
> it to the version found in stable, to ease backporting.

Sorry, but no. The next upload of octave-pkg-dev will change the way
documentation by octave-forge packages is installed, so I will need an
even stricter versioned build-dependency. 

For an individual octave-forge package, an older version of
octave-pkg-dev might suffice. But sorry, I don't have the time to check
that for every single octave-forge package in Debian.

I might re-consider this bug in the future, so I'm not closing it. But
don't expect a fix anytime soon.

	Thomas