Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Re: OctavePackaging

[Thomas Weber]

Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 00:00:04 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * David Bateman <address@hidden> [2007-05-11 23:09]:
> > Isn't there an automatic install process from CRAN? The same for Perl
> > from CPAN? Debian must live with these secondary package managers as
> > well. So my question was how does it?
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/AliothPkgBioc

If we go down that road, I'll stop. cran2deb.pl is an almost 2000 lines long 
perl script. Sorry, but I'd rather download the packages from Sourceforge and 
build them locally just for myself than having such maintenance scripts.

I already have the feeling that building the packages will be more work than 
building Octave itself, which is a strong sign for me that we are heading in 
the wrong direction.

        Thomas