Re: Forge packages recompiled against Octave 5 no longer depend on liboctave7

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2019-10-02 09:27]:

> * Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org> [2019-10-01 14:34]:
>
> > Maybe instead of a dependency on a specific liboctaveN, we could 
> > have dh-octave inject dependencies on "octave (>= 5.1~), octave (<< 
> > 6)"? This is essentially the stability promise we are aiming to 
> > provide now upstream.
>
> Would this be enough? What will happen if, in the 5.2 release, the 
> soname is bumped from liboctave7 to liboctave8?

Another possibility is to have dh-octave injecting the specific 
liboctaveN dependency, according to the version of octave used to 
build the package.  What do you think?

Rafael