Re: statistics 1.4.0 release

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2018-06-18 10:15 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 06:58:47 -0400, John Donoghue wrote:
> > On 06/18/2018 12:23 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > I'm starting to look at updating the Fedora octave-statistics package to
> > > 1.4.0.  It appears that the addition of a configure script triggers
> > > octave to treat it as an arch-specific package even though there are no
> > > compiled binaries.  Is there any desire to try to avoid this? >
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. The presence of a configure script
> causes Octave to run the configure script. I'm not sure that Octave does
> anything that makes it an "arch-specific package". The octave-statistics
> package in Debian is arch:all.

Orion,

Just in case this helps, the Symbolic package used to have a ./configure 
script and yet it was still a "noarch" Fedora package.  E.g.,

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=825299

Colin