[Pkg-octave-devel] Improvements for octave-pkg-dev [was: Re: Regarding octave-interval packaging]

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2016-04-25 07:11]:

> * Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-04-24 22:39]:
>>
>> - we should parse the upstream DESCRIPTION and provide the 
>> description text in a substvar. This way we don't have to repeat 
>> ourselves. See octave-interval's d/rules how to do it.
>
> Your technique using the ${source:Uptream-Description} is interesting 
> and it may be a good idea to implement it in octave-pkg-dev, more 
> specifically in the octave-pkg-helper or in another one similar.  This 
> is a Perl script and has provisions for creating and adding 
> substitution variables.  I will take a look at this.

I implemented your idea in commit 8f5df20.  For coherence sake, I called 
the substitution variable "octave:Uptream-Description", instead of 
"source:Uptream-Description", as you suggested.

Rafael