* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [2023-10-07 08:23]:
Hi Rafael,
Le samedi 07 octobre 2023 à 14:15 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
I have a question for the Debian Octave Group, related to Bug#1052973,
which has been fixed in version 8.3.0-3 of octave-dev. This bug was
preventing the building of the octave-image package. Should we include
octave-dev >= 8.3.0-3 in Build-Depends of the otave-image package ?
I would say no.
If every time that a bug is fixed in a dependency, we were to bump the
version requirement, then we would basically always depend on the
latest version of every package.
Ok, thanks for the advise.
Also, it may be possible that octave-image builds against an old
version of octave-dev that was not affected by the bug.
Apparently (but I did not check it thoroughly) , the “bug” in mkoctifle
was always there, but has only been exposed when the Debian build tools
started injecting some new -f* options into CFLAGS that was propagated
into the call of mkoctfile. This confuses mkoctfile's options parser,
resulting into a wrong behavior.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
