[Pkg-octave-devel] Trying to get back to Octave packaging

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:17:57PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> Not sure how many people are actually following this group. I got the
> impression that it was mostly Rafael and Thomas doing all the work,
> and now that Rafael is gone, it probably needs more geekpower. I want
> to help

Welcome. Also your impression is not quite right. Sébastien already
finds interesting bugs in Octave :)

> I was trying to find the git repos, because as I recall, the svn repos
> were deprecated some time ago. I couldn't find anything. The DOG wiki
> needs an update; I'll do it as soon as I can find the git repos. I'm
> more of an hg guy myself, but I understand git is very similar and
> just as pleasant as hg.

Each package has an individual git repo. In case there hasn't been any
upload since the decision to use git, there may not be a repository yet. 

In such a case, it's probably worth thinking about the package's future
(I recently switched qtoctave over and there the decision was clear. But
we also have some package with no upstream release for several years).

> Looking at the QA page for Octave packages, most things look clean, so
> I think this is probably a good time to help.
> 
> So where are the git repos?

http://git.debian.org/

Warning, huge list. for individual packages, it's probably easiest to go
there via the QA page, i.e.
	http://packages.qa.debian.org/qtoctave
and then the VCS link in the upper left corner.

We only keep the debian/ directory in git.

	Thomas