Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] octave in sid?

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hello,


>I hope this clarifies things for you. If you want to work on this
>virtual API package solution within the Debian Octave Group, you are
>more than welcome.
it does, thanks!

so you want me to implement something like this in reverse-dependencies?

OCTAVE_VERSION=$(shell dpkg-query --show --showformat='$${source:Upstream-Version}' octave | cut -f1,2 -d.)

override_dh_gencontrol:
dh_gencontrol -- \
-Voctave:Version=$(OCTAVE_VERSION) -Voctave:nextMajor=$(OCTAVE_VERSION).z

and then, runtime dependency
octave (>= ${octave:Version}),

octave (<< ${octave:nextMajor}),

this should do the trick, and force a full rebuild each time a new octave is uploaded.

does this sound feasible?


also, the answer in [1] looks sane
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861333#86

what do you think?

we could implement this while transitioning the packages to unstable, to avoid useless work for builders,
if we agree on the implementation, of course

thanks!

G.