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

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > I may have missed something, but I don't know what "octave-depends" is.
> Ok sorry I just realized that there was an octave-depends script in
> octave3.2-headers (of which I was not aware because we rather use the DH
> helper in octave-pkg-dev).

;-)

> I guess we removed it without notice because we were not aware that it
> was used by packages maintained outside the Debian Octave Group.

of cause I could only blame myself for not (yet) uploading my package to
Debian proper so you might have discovered that somehow (e.g. using
something like 
https://github.com/neurodebian/neurodebian/blob/master/tools/nd_build_testrdepends
which I wrote/used to test either a new version of a core package
doesn't break any build-dependees ;)

> Concerning where to put the removal notice: NEWS.Debian does not seem
> appropriate because we don't want to tell all octave users about
> something which is used at most by a few packagers; 

so it could be debian/octave-pkg-dev.NEWS
which is I guess the package of interest only for the packagers, right?
;)

> I would rather add a
> line to changelog.Debian: technically it belongs to the entry for the
> 3.4.3-1 version, but I am not sure it is acceptable to modify an old
> entry afterwards.

I have done that on few occasions -- better later than never! ;)

pedantic one could also add an entry to the most recent entry that prev
changelog entries were modified to reflect blah blah

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