[Pkg-octave-devel] Switch octave-pkg-dev from CDBS into dh

[Oliver Heimlich]

Am 28. Dezember 2017 08:51:42 MEZ schrieb "Rafael Laboissière" <rafael at debian.org>:
>* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-12-27 17:26]:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>>>
>>> It would be great to switch from CDBS into dh.  That should not be
>too 
>>> difficult to do, because the code in octave-pkg.mk depends already
>heavily 
>>> on debhelper.
>>>
>>> This is something that has been in my ToDo list for ages.  I will
>take a 
>>> look at this, as time permits.
>>
>> That would be great. dh has become a de facto standard, and cdbs is
>gradually 
>> becoming obsolete.
>
>As I expected, it was not difficult to adapt the code in octave-pkg-dev
>
>for switching from CDBS into dh.  It is implemented in the Git branch 
>dh-instead-of-cdbs.  

...

>If there are no objections, I will upload the new dh-based version to 
>unstable.  I will then immediately update all the other packages in
>Git, 
>accordingly.
>
>Rafael

I didn't check it on the technical level. But the proposed changes sound excellent. 

Oliver