[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.9 in sid

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Moving octave2.9 from experimental to sid would be a nice project for
someone with lots of free time in her hands.  There are two things that
need to be done in this respect:

1) Make the octave2.1 and octave2.9 packages exist peacefully.  For now,
   it is impossible to install the *-doc, *-emacsen, *-headers, *-html,
   and *-info package together.
   
2) All the packages depending on octave2.1 today have api-v15
   compatibility level.  Since octave2.9 is api-v16, we need two
   different binary versions each package.  We could have
   octave-forge-v13 (Depends: octave2.1) and octave-forge-v16 (Depends:
   octave2.9), for instance.  The files which are common to both 2.1 and
   2.9 (like the *.m scripts) would go into a octave-forge-common
   package, say.

The enormous advantage of this move is that octave2.9 will reach the
masses without breaking octave2.1.

Unfortunately, I do not have time to undertake this task in the
foreseeable future.  Volunteers?

-- 
Rafael