Introduction

The Debian Octave Group (DOG) is a collaborative effort for maintaining the Octave-related Debian packages. Coordination is done through the pkg-octave project at Alioth.

Any developer, either a member of Debian or not, is invited to participate. If you are interested, please drop a note to the project administrators at Alioth.

Maintained packages

Development is coordinated through Git repositories, using the git-buildpackage tool (with the associated git-dch tool for generating debian/changelog entries).

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists related to the project:

Migration to git-buildpackage and Octave 3.6

We are currently doing two migrations in our packages:

The following table lists the current state of the migrations for each package, and who has taken responsibility for it. The number of installed packages comes from the Debian Popularity Contest project (updated on 2012-03-10).

Legend: (./) uploaded, {OK} ready for upload, , /!\ test failure, {X} will not be ported

Status

Package

Pop Con

New upstream version

Uses gbp

Comment

To be done by

(./)

octave-miscellaneous

1204

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere, SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-optim

1030

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere, SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-control

983

2.3.50

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

(./)

qtoctave

941

Yes

SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-specfun

864

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

/!\

octave-signal

818

1.1.2

Yes

Log files

RafaelLaboissiere

(./)

octave-gsl

776

Yes

SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-struct

767

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere, SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-statistics

703

1.1.0

Yes

SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-plot

616

1.1.0

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

(./)

octave-linear-algebra

595

Yes

SébastienVillemot

octave-io

541

1.0.17

SébastienVillemot

(./)

octave-general

528

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

(./)

octave-image

518

1.0.15

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

{X}

octave-splines

496

buggy with 3.6

RafaelLaboissiere

{OK}

octave-missing-functions

464

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

octave-symbolic

454

Yes

octave-strings

446

RafaelLaboissiere

/!\

octave-odepkg

419

0.8.0

Yes

Log files

RafaelLaboissiere

{OK}

octave-communications

407

1.1.0

Yes

RafaelLaboissiere

octave-audio

387

octave-time

386

(./)

octave-nan

381

2.5.2

Yes

SébastienVillemot

octave-parallel

365

(./)

octave-epstk

353

Yes

ThomasWeber

octave-multicore

347

octave-combinatorics

347

octave-data-smoothing

331

1.3.0

Yes

SébastienVillemot

octave-optiminterp

329

octave-informationtheory

305

octave-tsa

302

octave-ad

298

bastienroucaries

octave-fixed

285

octave-octgpr

278

octave-zenity

260

octave-financial

260

octave-econometrics

258

SébastienVillemot

octave-ident

254

octave-irsa

253

octave-nnet

251

octave-ga

251

semidef-oct

249

octave-outliers

249

octave-vrml

244

octave-sockets

230

octave-octcdf

228

1.1.4

octave-fpl

213

octave-mapping

206

octave-benchmark

206

octave-ocs

202

0.1.3

octave-nurbs

195

1.3.5

octave-simp

189

octave-symband

185

octave-msh

165

Yes

SébastienVillemot

octave-nlwing2

158

octave-secs2d

155

octave-secs1d

154

octave-pdb

149

octave-bim

137

Yes

SébastienVillemot

dynare

54

Yes

SébastienVillemot

octave-java

35

Yes

SébastienVillemot

The following table lists packages that have been removed from Debian and are therefore not important for the transition (this just serves as reminder that they were not overlooked):

Bellow is the list of packages in Octave-Forge that are not yet in Debian. We will give very low priority to them before the transition to 3.6 and gbp is complete, unless there is a strong demand from the community to include any of them.

Recipe for migrating to gbp

A repository containining only the debian/ subdir can be converted to a gbp repository with the following sequence of commands:

git checkout --orphan upstream
git rm -rf .
git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../<package_version>.orig.tar.gz
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master
git merge upstream

Then you will probably want to fix .gitignore.

When pushing your changes to the centralized repository at git.debian.org, push also the branches related to the upstream code, as well as the local tags:

git push --set-upstream origin upstream pristine-tar
git push --tags

Check list for the Octave-Forge packages

  1. Bump the build-dependency on octave-pkg-dev to >= 1.0.0.

  2. Bump the Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
  3. The recommended debhelper compat level is 9.
  4. Add Sébastien Villemot to the list of Uploaders
  5. We use a machine-readable debian/copyright with the 1.0 specification. Generating this file can be simplified by the following command:

licensecheck -r --copyright -c  '\.m|\.cc|\.h' . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5

cme fix dpkg-copyright