[Pkg-octave-devel] Fwd: Debian packagers want to know

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Folks, the Debian packagers are hard at work to updating the Debian
packages for Octave-Forge, and they would like to know what packages
are a priority (i.e. which ones are the most important, by number of
users and because other packages depend on them).

Making Debian packages is important. The Octave's native pkg install
mechanism is brittle and can fail in a number of ways, because users
haven't installed required compilation libraries, or because API
versions between Octave-Forge and Octave aren't matched up. The goal
of having Debian packages is to eliminate both of these problems and
shift the burden of fixing those problems from the users to the Debian
maintainers. Debian needs to match versions of Octave with working
versions of Octave-Forge packages.

So which packages are a priority?

Thanks,
- Jordi G. H.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net>
Date: 2012/3/12
Subject: Re: Nice to have you back
To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org>


Hi Jordi,

Since you became quite tightly involved in Octave and Octave-Forge, could
you give us an advise regarding the Debian packages?  We are clearly
lacking manpower in the DOG (Debian Octave Group) and the list of
packages to be migrated before the wheezy freeze in June is quite large.

Could you please tell me which of the Octave-Forge packages must
absolutely be shipped with the next stable version of Debian?  Also, in
our wiki [1], there is a list of OF packages that are not yet in Debian.
Tell me, please, which of them should also be included.

Best,

Rafael

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup