Bug#417659: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#417659: octave2.9-forge: API version mismatches the octave core

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com> [2007-04-05 23:50]:

> I also notice that the octave-forge provides a pkg mechanism now
> according to their faq and docs.  And, of course, the pkg subsystem is
> not a compatible Debian style.  But I think the new pkg method is not
> compulsory.  I mean, octave-forge may be able to work in a pre-build
> manner.  Thus, it may be possible to provide a matched octave-forge
> package so that it can be used with the current octave core in sid
> (after addpath the oct files and m files of octave-forge).  Well, I'm
> not sure about it; just a guess :-)

Thanks for your suggestions but we already started discussing about this in
the pkg-octave-devel mailing list [1].  This is a quite big project and I
cannot foresee when it will be done.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2007-March/002200.html

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Rafael