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

[Colin Ingram]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

>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?
>
>  
>
this week and next week are quite busy for me but I can start working on 
this on the weekends.  Anway one else with more time go ahead and start 
it up and I'll jump in on the weekends.