Since version 3.0 of octave (a numerical computation software), add-ons can be installed through the pkg.m system. this package provides the infrastructure for packaging such add-ons for debian. it contains a makefile scrap for inclusion in debian/rules, as well as the necessary code for generating the appropriate maintainer scripts as well as the replacing the substitution variables in debian/control.

this package is intended to be used by the debian octave group and should be of little interest to general users.