On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > 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).
;-) > I guess we removed it without notice because we were not aware that it > was used by packages maintained outside the Debian Octave Group. of cause I could only blame myself for not (yet) uploading my package to Debian proper so you might have discovered that somehow (e.g. using something like https://github.com/neurodebian/neurodebian/blob/master/tools/nd_build_testrdepends which I wrote/used to test either a new version of a core package doesn't break any build-dependees ;) > 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; so it could be debian/octave-pkg-dev.NEWS which is I guess the package of interest only for the packagers, right? ;) > 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. I have done that on few occasions -- better later than never! ;) pedantic one could also add an entry to the most recent entry that prev changelog entries were modified to reflect blah blah -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
