[Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing 2.9.15 as 3.0.rc?
Thomas Weber
thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 08:05:03 UTC 2007
Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 17:32 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> 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
Current status (as I've understood it ;) )
We will upload a 2.9.14 version labeled as octave3.0 to experimental. Is
that correct?
Should the warning be a README or a debconf note?
Thomas
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