[Pkg-octave-devel] sundials: Adjust for the new octave package version 3.6.1

Kamaraju Kusumanchi kamaraju at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 23:20:01 UTC 2012


>> The current version of sundials in sid build-depends on octave-pkg-dev.
>> This package will be removed from unstable once the transition to the
>> new version of octave (currently 3.6.1) is completed
>
> This statement is not accurate.  The octave-pkg-dev will not be removed
> after the transition.  We will request the removal of the octave3.2*
> packages instead.
>

I stand corrected then.

> Your patch is generally fine.  Let me just suggest a improvement in
> debian/rules: instead of hard-coding the version of octave in the
> installation directory, just use the paths that Octave will recognize.
> One can get them using the octave-config command.
>

Oh goody! I noticed it but did not know how to fix it. Thanks for
taking care of it.



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