Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] All packages are in SVN now

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

On 13 February 2005 at 20:31, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> [2005-02-12 16:48]:
| 
| > Could you add octave-sp (source package semidef-oct) ?  This one generates an
| > .oct and needs a rebuild with new octave versions, just like octave-forge.
| 
| It is done.  

Thanks for doing that. By now all my *octave* package should be on alioth. 

| I see at ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/hodel/ the following:
| 
|     semidef-oct-2.2.tar.gz  695 KB 11/23/2001 12:00:00 AM
|     semidef-oct-2003.tar.gz 318 KB 04/07/2003 12:00:00 AM

Very attentive :)  Same on my box:

edd@chibud:~> ls -dl src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-*
drwxr-xr-x  6 edd edd 4096 Feb 26  2004 src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-2.2
drwx------  5 edd edd 4096 Nov 22  2003 src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-2003
edd@chibud:~> ls -dl src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-*/debian/changelog
-rw-r--r--  1 edd edd 7633 Dec  4 10:43 src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-2.2/debian/changelog
-rw-r--r--  1 edd edd 5188 Jul  1  2003 src/debian/Octave/semidef-oct-2003/debian/changelog

| >From the dates, I assume that version 2003 is more recent than 2.2, although
| using the year as version was the old style used by A. Hodel.  At any rate,
| I am having trouble in building the package (compilation errors).  I will
| investigate this soon.

IIRC -2003 never built for me. A S Hodel is not the most responsive guy in
the world, so we should consider yanking the package if it gets too tedious
to maintain.

Or a better solution would be to integrate semidef into octave-forge. I once
suggested that to Paul who, IIRC, was sympathetic. Someone needs to do the
leg work, though.

I'll CC Paul.  Paul -- you may want to join this list and the Debian Octave
team on alioth.debian.org. Non-Debianers gets so called guest accounts
(i.e. pkienzle-guest) and can join in just like the rest of us; but Debianers
need to make the uploads.

Dirk

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