[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-interval packaging

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 03.10.2015 17:55, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 00:21:08 +0200, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
>> The debuild runs on a minimal Debian Unstable now, with no lintian
>> warning/errors. A pdebuild works. I have checked the manual, it is
>> alright and the graphics are perfect. I could install the deb-files,
>> load and use the package successfully in Octave (amd64 architecture).
> 
> Confirmed that the build works for me with sbuild also.

What are the next steps? Is the package ready for upload?

> Lintian warns of a typo:
> 
> I: octave-interval: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/interval-1.2.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+/mpfr_to_string_d.oct seperate separate

Thanks, I will fix this upstream together with another typo in that file
(I forgot to enable the spell checker in my editor).

> However, the build also won't fail if any tests fail, both because the
> Octave's test function doesn't throw an error or return an error status
> to the shell, and because the block of make code running the tests
> doesn't care about the exit status of Octave.

So, I have to check the build logs for all architectures later?