[Pkg-octave-devel] what replaces octave-depends?

Thomas Weber tweber at debian.org
Sun Apr 15 19:42:49 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Short answer: no, there is no replacement for octave-depends.  Long
> answer: make the fsl package just suggest octave, instead of using
> ${octave:Depends}.  If you know that the *.m files included in the fsl
> package only work with a minimal version of Octave, then add the a
> appropriate versioned releationship.
> 
> Also, remove from debian/rules the line containing:
> 
>     include /usr/share/octave/debian/defs.make
> 
> The defs.make file does not exist in the Debian package for Octave 3.6.

Just a short clarification (because I actually thought we would have a
a problem here): 'defs.make' still exists at the place above, it's now
part of liboctave-dev.

	Thomas



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