Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-03-09 21:32]: > >> Note that currently this improvement is not really needed since there is >> no pre-3.6 octave package in Debian (the 3.2 package has a different >> name: octave3.2), [...] > > There is a virtual package called octave and octave3.2 provides it. I > would guess that an arch:all OF package with "Depends: octave" would > be satisfied by octave3.2 Thanks for pointing this. I therefore intend to upload a new version of octave-pkg-dev tonight, before we upload any arch:all OF package (so far we did not if I am right). Because otherwise arch:all packages would migrate too soon to testing. >> It would also be useful to exploit the dependency versioning between >> Forge packages, for similar reasons. > > This is currently implemented in octave-pkg-helper, which parses > DESCRIPTION and emits the appropriate versioned dependencies on the other > OF packages when replacing ${octave:Depends}. I wrote that code a while > ago and have forgotten it. I somehow overlooked that feature. Thanks for reminding me that you already implemented it. -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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