[Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.15 --> 3.0

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2007-10-08 15:18]:

> On  8-Oct-2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> | I think we should release right now the octave3.0 packages to Debian
> | unstable, but give it a "version" number 2.9.14-1 (supposing that we package
> | the current 2.9.14 tarball).  These packages will be identical to their
> | current octave2.9 counterparts, with only the name changed.  We could also
> | upload the new packages to the experimental distribution.
> | 
> | The goal of the exercise is to get octave3.0 approved in Debian by the time
> | the real 3.0.0 is released to the world.
> 
> I think it is OK to do this if you add a prominent note in the readme
> file that the octave3.0 package is a test release and the version
> number of Octave itself remains 2.9.x.

Okay, will do.

> It might also be good to prevent it from going into the testing, and I
> think it should not be the version that one gets when installing the
> "octave" package until 3.0 is actually released.

In this case, we should release it to experimental instead of unstable.

-- 
Rafael