[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#886195: Bug#886195: Turns out qscintilla2 is not detected

[Scott Kitterman]

On January 4, 2018 10:09:18 AM UTC, "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:26:44AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Please see the attached patch.  Rebuilding with the new qscintilla2
>causes 
>> octave to fail to detect qscintilla2 during the build.  It builds,
>but less 
>> that support.
>> 
>> I'm not bumping the priority since I don't know how important it is
>to Octave 
>> to have QScintilla2 suppport.  I can upload the attached patch as an
>NMU if 
>> you'd prefer.
>
>Thanks for looking at this.
>
>QScintilla is fairly important (it is used for syntax highlighting and
>code
>completion in the code editor), so we should fix it quickly.
>
>I’m fine with an NMU. Otherwise I can do an upload today, probably with
>other
>changes (like a debhelper compat level change), with the potential risk
>of
>disrupting the transition.
>
>Please let me know what you prefer.
>
>Best,

Thanks. Please go ahead with it.  I already have several NMUs to prepare for the transition, so it would be helpful if you could take care of octave.

Scott K