[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#665326: Bug#665326: confused by disapparance of octave-depends (nothing in changelog)

[Sébastien Villemot]

Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com> writes:

> I had build-depends on octave-pkg-dev (which depended on octave3.2-headers) and
> used octave-depends to substitute octave:Depends .  Now the package FTBFS in
> sid and it is not transparent where octave-depends are gone/what they are
> replaced with...
>
> I see
>  Nothing in changelog
>  commit msgs for its removal (from debian/ or debian/in) were as non-descriptive.
>
> As I understand -- now octave-depends is no longer needed and we could
> simply depend on octave (although for me due to backporting I would need to
> maintain both ways).  

I may have missed something, but I don't know what "octave-depends" is.

The substitution of ${octave:Depends} in debian/control is done by the
script installed in /usr/share/octave/debian/dh/octave-pkg-helper.

This script has not been renamed or removed in recent versions of
octave-pkg-dev, so I don't really understand your problem.

Maybe could you give more details about your package setup ant the
FTBFS?

Best,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
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