[Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.11 is out
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Tue May 22 09:51:50 UTC 2007
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-05-22 11:15]:
> Am Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007 10:52:50 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > I think it is now time to make octave == octave2.9 in Debian.
>
> > This would
> > imply putting "Package: octave" under V_2_9 in debian/in/control and
> > release the resulting octave2.1 and octave2.9 packages. For that to work,
> > we will have to propagate the epoch number into the 2.9 series. It is
> > ugly, but I do not think there is another alternative.
>
> Isn't it possible to give the virtual Octave package an arbitrary version
> number that we can just bump as needed?
Sure, but it has to be greater than 1:2.1.73-13 anyway. Also, we must have
a separate source package for it.
--
Rafael
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