DH_OCTAVE_VERSION(1)

💖 DH_OCTAVE_VERSION(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the dh-octave manual page — yes that's the manual name, we're just gonna vibe with it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_octave_version — bestie it checks the Octave version dependency for an Octave add-on package 🐙

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_octave_version

like. that's it. that's the whole synopsis. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so dh_octave_version is meant to be run from the top-level source directory of an Octave add-on package. periodt.

and what does it do while it's there? it checks whether the version of the Octave program installed on the system actually satisfies the dependency specified in the package's DESCRIPTION file. no cap. it's giving version-vibe-check ✨

🫶 tl;dr: run it from the top-level source dir, and it will tell you if your system Octave matches what your DESCRIPTION file asked for.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• debhelper(7)
• dh(1)
• dh_octave_substvar(1)
• dh_octave_clean(1)
• dh_octave_check(1)
• dh_octave_changelogs(1)
• dh_octave_examples(1)

and then, the lore 🧚:

this program is meant to be used together with debhelper for Debian packages derived from Octave add-on packages. it's recommended that you enable it by adding the dh-sequence-octave virtual package to Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Arch or Build-Depends-Indep — whichever field slays for your situation 💖

and btw, that is equivalent to:

• adding dh-octave to that same field, and
• adding --with=octave to the dh sequencer in debian/rules

except — and this is the important bit, bestie — only -arch/-indep/profiled builds are affected, and honestly it's also slightly more simple in the most common case. so like, lowkey the better move 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>

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okay that's the whole page, we ate 🍓 no crumbs left. this was version 1.16.2, dated 2026-07-18, and it came to you courtesy of the dh-octave corner of the internet. mwah, bye bestie 💜🦋🌸