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

[Thomas Weber]

My mail setup seems to lag a lot in receiving mails. 

Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2007, 23:28 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-10-09 14:05]:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> For now, I would do minimal changes and hence keep the current scheme.
> Later, once octave3.0 passes NEW, we should look at possible improvements in
> the debian/ files.  For instance, the code in debian/rules is brittle and
> hard to maintain.  I would love to switch to cdbs, but I am afraid it will
> not be very simple due to the current binary-arch/binary-indep build tricks.
> 
> At any rate, I am not sure we should abandon the debian/in/ scheme for
> maintaining multiple versions of the octave packages.  I imagine that the
> upstream authors will start an "unstable" branch 3.1 after 3.0 is released.
> Am I wrong?

Okay, I'll continue from there.

	Thomas