[Pkg-octave-devel] The rest of the packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-03-31 01:12]:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > A definite removal candidate is semidef-oct. I'll need to push the
> > > source code somewhere else, though - afaik Debian is the only place
> > > where you can actually get the source code for it.
> > 
> > Absolutely.  Non Debian-related upstream code should not be maintained
> > by Debian.
> 
> It's not that easy. semidef-oct's author died some years ago and his
> university page vanished (I think that's were the source code was
> hosted).

Indeed, it is a complex situation.  You might create a separate project
in Alioth for keeping (not really maintaining) the upstream code.

At any rate, I just pushed the upstream and pristine-tar branches into
our Git repository for the semidef-oct package.  This will ensure that
the upstream code is available in a SCM system instead of in random
tarballs of the Debian distribution.

Rafael