[Pkg-octave-devel] package with octave interface script (bart)

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Uecker, Martin <Martin.Uecker at med.uni-goettingen.de> [2015-12-13 11:20]:
>
> I am packaging our image reconstruction toolbox for MRI 
> for debian-med (see links below). This package consists of 
> a command-line tool, but also includes a matlab/octave 
> interface scripts.
>
> What is the best way of packaging this helper script(s)? 
> Can I just have an octave-bart package which installs 
> some files as:
>
>  /usr/share/octave/packages/bart/bart.m
>  /usr/share/octave/packages/bart/packinfo/
>  /usr/share/octave/packages/bart/packinfo/DESCRIPTION
>  /usr/share/octave/packages/bart/readcfl.m
>  /usr/share/octave/packages/bart/writecfl.m
>
> Is there a policy? Is there is a similar thing for Matlab?

What the fuck is Matlab? :-)

As regards Octave, ideally, you would convert your package such that it 
can be installed using the pkg command of Octave (cf Octave-Forge).

Otherwise, the current practice for third-party packages in Debian 
containing *.m files for Octave is to install them in 
/usr/share/octave/site/m/. Here are their names:

    $ apt-file find /usr/share/octave/site/m/ | cut -f1 -d: | sort | grep -v octave-common | uniq
    dynare
    dynare-common
    fsl-4.1
    fsl-5.0-core
    libsbml5-octave
    matlab2tikz
    mrtrix
    octave-epstk
    octave-gmt
    octave-nlopt
    octave-pfstools
    octave-plplot
    octave-psychtoolbox-3
    octave-sundials
    octave-vlfeat
    xmds

Best regards,

Rafael Laboissière