[Pkg-octave-devel] Versioning the dependency on octave for the OF packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2012-03-09 22:33]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-03-09 21:32]:
> 
> > Also, for future improvements to octave-pkg-dev, we may want to exploit
> > the dependency versioning that is in the DESCRIPTION file of Forge
> > packages. Ideally octave-pkg-dev should fail if the installed octave is
> > lower than the required one. For instance, such a mechanism would have
> > prevented #649395; see also #661123 for a similar problem, but in that
> > case upstream also forgot to tighten the dependency.
> 
> Yes, that will be a nice improvement.  I will take a look at it.

Done (commit e5d652b8).

I did some minimal test, it seems to work.  As I wrote in the commit
log, it only works for the ">=" relationship.  I think this should be
enough.

Rafael