Re: Octave Packaging

[Søren Hauberg]

David Bateman skrev:
> This is a shame. I'd hoped that the sample SRPM and SPEC I'd sent
> (attached for those interested), that I'm currently using on my own
> machine now with the premise of eating my own dog food, would be
> sufficient to show the way for a debian package. I have no debian
> machine to test with or experience in debian packaging and so cn't
> easily do the debian packaging myself. Otherwise I would already have
> produced a debian source package for you to examine.
David,
  I agree with what you have to say. I do believe your arguments would 
be stronger if we actually had the code to produce .deb's (a 
chicken-and-egg problem). Could you alter your RPM script to produce the 
correct directory/file structure for .deb's? Ignore issues such as 
'on_uninstall' etc. Perhaps just handle packages that only contain .m 
files? I assume this would be fairly simple, and I think it would make 
your points stronger if we had a simple prototype that would give some 
insights from a debian packaging point-of-view.

Soren

P.S. If you need access to a debian system, can't you simply download a 
LiveCD? They are all over the net nowadays...