Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> writes: > Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> writes: > >> I had build-depends on octave-pkg-dev (which depended on octave3.2-headers) and >> used octave-depends to substitute octave:Depends . Now the package FTBFS in >> sid and it is not transparent where octave-depends are gone/what they are >> replaced with... >> >> I see >> Nothing in changelog >> commit msgs for its removal (from debian/ or debian/in) were as non-descriptive. >> >> As I understand -- now octave-depends is no longer needed and we could >> simply depend on octave (although for me due to backporting I would need to >> maintain both ways). > > I may have missed something, but I don't know what "octave-depends" is. Ok sorry I just realized that there was an octave-depends script in octave3.2-headers (of which I was not aware because we rather use the DH helper in octave-pkg-dev). This script was only useful when there were several versions of Octave co-existing in the archive. Directly depending on octave is indeed the right way to go now. I guess we removed it without notice because we were not aware that it was used by packages maintained outside the Debian Octave Group. Concerning where to put the removal notice: NEWS.Debian does not seem appropriate because we don't want to tell all octave users about something which is used at most by a few packagers; I would rather add a line to changelog.Debian: technically it belongs to the entry for the 3.4.3-1 version, but I am not sure it is acceptable to modify an old entry afterwards. Thomas and Rafael: what do you think? -- 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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