Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 2.9.10, octave-forge with new pkg system: Call for volunteers

[Jimi Ayodele <ayodele@sdf.lonestar.org>]

I would be interested in helping, but I would like to work with at least 
one other person for the time being.

The "incident" which occurred during my last commit caused me to be rather 
apprehensive about directly submitting patches to the versioning system. 
Although this happened about eighteen months ago, it feels like it 
happened last week.

As such, I would rather hold off on making any commits on my own until I 
become more familiar with how the versioning system works. In the 
meantime, my preference is to submit patches to a developer who has ample 
experience with the system.

JA

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:51:08 +0200
> From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
> To: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: [Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 2.9.10,
>     octave-forge with new pkg system: Call for volunteers
>
> I hope to finish soon the packaging of Octave 2.9.10 for Debian.  This is
> taking time because, first, the package takes very long to build on the
> machine where I have a sid chroot and, second, many changes to the Debian
> files were needed.
>
> The octave2.9*_2.9.10-1 packages will be uploaded to experimental because
> octave2.9 build-depends on libglpk-dev >= 4.15, which is still waiting for
> approval in the NEW queue.  The new GLPK packages can be accessed through my
> personal apt-getable repository [1].
>
> A new version of octave-forge has been released yesterday that uses the new
> Octave package manager.  This means that Debian users will be able to
> install the octave-forge packages without using Debian's octave2.9-forge.
> Therefore, we should restructure the Debian packaging system for
> octave-forge, perhaps along the same lines as in cran2deb [2].
>
> This is a quite big project and I cannot commit myself in undertaking it
> soon.  It would be great if people could step forward and help us to
> accomplish this task.  I have not yet a clear idea on how we should proceed,
> so it would be good to discuss about the alternatives here in
> pkg-octave-devel.
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/glpk/
> [2] http://wiki.debian.org/?AliothPkgBioc
>
> --
> Rafael
>
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