[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave3.0 3.0.0-1
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Sun Dec 23 08:21:18 UTC 2007
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2007-12-22 21:59]:
> I was planning to drop the epoch "1:" of the version number of the octave3.0
> package. However, this does not work because the "octave" package will have
> version 3.0.0-1, which is lesser than the current 1:2.9.19-2.
>
> The simplest fix is to keep the epoch and release octave3.0 1:3.0.0-1.
> Otherwise, we could create a separate "octave" package which would be empty
> and would have the epoch in its version number.
>
> We could also just drop the octave package. After all, octave3.0 provides
> octave. Moreover, no octave package was generated from the octave3.0 source
> [1]. I do not know whether this will work or not.
>
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/octave3.0/news/20071019T184134Z.html
>
> We should make a decision quite quickly, otherwise the octave3.0 packages
> will not be released before 2008.
Okay, I think I will go ahead and release octave3.0 3.0.0-1 without the
epoch in its version number and as SVN r1133. The source package will not
contain the empty octave package. If it is necessary, we can introduce it
later. I would expect some upgrading problems.
We should also request the removal of octave2.9 from the distribution.
Seasons greetings,
--
Rafael
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