[Pkg-octave-devel] octave in sid?
Gianfranco Costamagna
locutusofborg at debian.org
Tue Jun 20 11:38:18 UTC 2017
Hello,
>I hope this clarifies things for you. If you want to work on this
>virtual API package solution within the Debian Octave Group, you are
>more than welcome.
it does, thanks!
so you want me to implement something like this in reverse-dependencies?
OCTAVE_VERSION=$(shell dpkg-query --show --showformat='$${source:Upstream-Version}' octave | cut -f1,2 -d.)
override_dh_gencontrol:
dh_gencontrol -- \
-Voctave:Version=$(OCTAVE_VERSION) -Voctave:nextMajor=$(OCTAVE_VERSION).z
and then, runtime dependency
octave (>= ${octave:Version}),
octave (<< ${octave:nextMajor}),
this should do the trick, and force a full rebuild each time a new octave is uploaded.
does this sound feasible?
also, the answer in [1] looks sane
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861333#86
what do you think?
we could implement this while transitioning the packages to unstable, to avoid useless work for builders,
if we agree on the implementation, of course
thanks!
G.
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