[Pkg-octave-devel] Package for 2.9.x?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 April 2005 at 15:28, John W. Eaton wrote:
| Has there been any work done to package 2.9.x for Debian?

Yes, Rafael did a lot of work on that. But because it was a somewhat
experimental upload (given that my old 'hack' of allowing 2.0 and 2.1 to
co-exist had never been extended), it was rightly placed in the
'experimental' distribution. Those sit in the pool/ structure just like all
the other packages, e.g.

	http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/octave2.9/

and all the mirrors, but they do get fed to the autobuilders. If you have an
entry in apt's sources.list for experimental, and have the proper pinning,
then you can install these just like all the other packages.

Now, I never had time to play with these so I am unsure what the status is.
Another issue may be that we are supposedly close to a freeze (yeah, heard
that before :) so Rafael may not have wanted to insert this into unstable.

| What is necessary to create a new set of packages for 2.9.x?

I think they are all there, the svn archive on alioth.debian.org will have
the code, and we should expect to 2.9.2 in due course. Now as to when these
go into unstable, I will let others speak to.

Regards,  Dirk

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