Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] When are release versions bumped?
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * David Bateman <David.Bateman@motorola.com> [2008-05-12 10:00]:
>
>
>> [...] Also I believe distributions like Debian would prefer to deal is a
>> monolithic tar-ball rather than individual source packages and so even if
>> the individual packages were released independently, there would probably
>> remain a need for the monolithic releases.
>>
>
> We (the Debian Octave Group) have already moved towards the release of
> individual packages. There is still a monolithic octave-forge package for
> octave2.1, though. It will be present in the next release of Debian (code
> name lenny) but will be dropped afterwards.
>
>
Sorry slight misstatement on my part, from what I've seen with the
distributions packaging octave-forge with RPMs the tendency is to have a
single source RPM with a single SPEC file that creates all of the
individual packages. Therefore the source package has the octave-forge
package tar-ball in it rather than the individual packages... I don't
think they want 50 or more individual source packages. Sorry I don't
know how debian packages things.
D.
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