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

[Thomas Weber]

Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2007, 14:05 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2007, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-10-09 10:05]:
> > 
> > > Current status (as I've understood it ;) )
> > > 
> > > We will upload a 2.9.14 version labeled as octave3.0 to experimental. Is
> > > that correct? 
> > 
> > Yes.  Are you working on this?
> > 
> > > Should the warning be a README or a debconf note?
> > 
> > A warning should be okay.  This version will probably never enter testing,
> > so there is no need to go through the hassle of creating a debconf note, at
> > least for now.
> > 
> > We might also patch some macros in src/version.h (e.g.
> > OCTAVE_NAME_AND_VERSION) in order to change the banner message at startup.
> 
> I'll try to start with it tonight. Should we continue with the
> debian/in/ directory from 2.1/2.9 or with a normal debian/ directory?

Having looked at it, I think we might be better of with a fresh 
	pkg-octave/octave3.0/trunk
directory (ie, not using the slicing with an in/ directory). The patches
to octave2.1 and octave2.9 have no intersection and the double work we
might have at the beginning of the 3.0/3.1 series is (imo) outweighted
by the simplicity later on.

Objections?

	Thomas