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

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 15:32:38 UTC 2007


Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 14:14 +0200 schrieb 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?

I've asked on octave-maintainers if they are okay with this. After all,
we are pushing out something that is not a release candidate per se.

	Thomas




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