[Pkg-octave-devel] New potential packager

Juan Pablo Carbajal carbajal at ifi.uzh.ch
Thu Mar 1 08:00:53 UTC 2012


2012/2/29 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>:
> Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal at ifi.uzh.ch> writes:
>
>> What is bad with this mechanism? I guess everybody will be happy to
>> learn better strategies. But as I said before, if you try to apply
>> serious packaging standard, I may be inclined to think that that will
>> hinder OF rather than help its development.
>
> I don’t think the Debian Octave Group has tried to enforce anything at
> the OF level. What we do is basically packaging stuff that is worth it
> From our point of view, while being as cooperative as possible with
> upstream. If we consider that something is not ready to be packaged,
> then we don't package it, and that's no big deal.
>
> --
> Sébastien Villemot
> Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
> http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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Fair enough. I will see if I can get a grip on the packaging issue,
learning curve is not so smooth down here :D

Regards,

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
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