[Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing 2.9.15 as 3.0.rc?

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-10-08 12:45]:

> There's currently a discussion on octave-maintainers[1] about the
> release of 2.9.15, 3.0 and press coverage. 
> 
> If we push Octave 3.0 as octave3.0 into Debian, we will have some NEW
> processing, which will delay things. So, should we upload 2.9.15 as both
> octave2.9 and octave3.0-rc? So that the actual release gets trough
> without NEW processing.

This is an excellent idea, thanks for proposing it.  Since 2.9.15 is not yet
released, we could release octave3.0_2.9.14-1 immediately with the current
2.9.14 upstream tarball.  Could you please prepare this in SVN such that I
do the upload ASAP?

-- 
Rafael