Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Concurrent maintenance of the Octave packaging

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:13:42 -0500
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> On the Octave side, we can regularly maintain the packaging-default
> branch so that the packaging is "always ready", so that when a new
> major Octave release happens, we can use what has been collaboratively
> maintained there as the basis of a new Debian packaging. We can also
> keep more than one .spec for Fedora, for SuSE, and whatever else, but
> we don't need to distribute them in tarballs.
> 
> Is this simple enough? Or too complicated?

Speaking from the Fedora side, I just see this as a complication
without added benefit.

I do recommend that you have working Windows and MacOS build scripts in
the tree, though.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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