[Pkg-octave-devel] octave3.0 entering testing today + octave-forge pkgs

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Apr-2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| The octave3.0 package was caught in a complex library transition for
| suitesparse, lam, and hdf5 and involving dozens of other packages.  Thanks
| to a hint by Mark 'HE' Brockschmidt, octave3.0 and other packages will enter
| testing today.  More details can be found in a thread in debian-release [1].

That's good news.  I'm glad and relieved that this finally happened.

| Otherwise, although there is no real hush, since the full freeze is schedule
| for the mid of July 2008, let us remember the words of the Release Team:
| 
|     Please don't wait with uploads for the last day before the freeze,
|     thanks.    

OK.  I plan to release Octave 3.0.1 soon (probably next week, though I
can't promise anything).  Since it only includes bug fixes since 3.0,
I think it should be easy for that to be in testing soon as well.  I'm
assuming that it will be easy to just replace 3.0 with 3.0.1 in the
Debian package and since there have been no dependency changes or
anything like that, it should get into testing quickly.  Is that
correct?

Thanks,

jwe