Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave image acquisition package

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Hi Andreas,

* Andreas Weber <octave@tech-chat.de> [2015-08-09 09:12]:

> is there anything I can do to help package image-acquisition 
> (http://octave.sourceforge.net/image-acquisition/index.html) for Debian?
>
> I've found 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFrance/NewContributorGame#Packaging_Octave_image_acquisition_package 
> but apparently it didn't got attention.

Thanks for your interest in packaging image-acquisition for Debian.

> The checklist here https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup 
> if to cryptic for me who has used Debian for many years but never made a 
> Debian package.
>
> Pehaps someone could lead me to the process?

Indeed, the checklist in 
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup is not intended to be 
a recipe on creating new packages.

For the OF packages, I wrote some time ago a helper script for creating 
Debian packages for them.  The workflow would be something like this:

   $ sudo aptitude install octave-pkg-dev
   $ tar xf image-acquisition-0.2.2.tar.gz
   $ cd image-acquisition-0.2.2
   $ make-octave-forge-debpkg

The necessary files debian/* will be created, but they should be adjusted 
before uploading the final Debian package.

Ideally, your work should be shared with us through the Git repository at 
Alioth.  We require the use of git-buildpackage for managing the packages 
with Git.

Best,

Rafael