[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.1 and octave2.9 in unstable

[Colin Ingram]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

>Packages octave2.1*_2.1.72-1 and octave2.9*_2.9.4-1 have been uploaded to
>unstable today.  I worked quite hard during the last weekend to get both
>set of packages not conflicting with each other.
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hey great job!!!!

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>The octave2.9 package has a RC bug (#310226, severity: serious) filed
>against it.  I am afraid the package will not stay very long in unstable
>due to the severity level of the said bug.  One possible solution is to
>downgrade its level to "important".  Another solution is to disable, if
>possible, the use of the glpk library at build time.  At any rate, I
>already sent a patch to the maintainer of glpk to allow building shared
>libraries for glpk (http://bugs.debian.org/335237).  There has been no
>much progress on this front, though.  Please, comments are welcome.
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Im not sure what the effects of disabling the glpk library...but if it 
is something user can live with temporarily that might be the best 
choice.  Especially considering the uncertainties in the package at this 
time(in Debian and upstream).

>Go and use octave2.9, spotting for bugs in the package.  Advertisements
>are welcome.  If someone could drop a note in help at octave.org, I would be
>very grateful.
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sure I'll drop a note

>Getting tired now,
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sleep is good!



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