[Pkg-octave-devel] Should octave2.1 ship with Lenny?
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Tue Apr 15 10:31:23 UTC 2008
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-15 09:23]:
> with the upload of <insert large number here> -forge packages into NEW,
> we should discuss the inclusion of octave2.1 into Lenny.
>
> Quite frankly, I'm in favor of getting rid of it. If someone reports a
> bug in it to us, we ask them to check with octave3.0 already. If they
> ask upstream, they are told to try the 3.0 branch. So, octave2.1 is
> basically unsupported by anyone.
>
> Additionally, most add-on packages (octaviz, qtoctave, ...) only work
> with octave3.0.
I think we already discussed about this and we agreed to ship octave2.1 with
lenny. I agree with all your arguments above but it is the tradition in
Debian to provide smooth transitions. I think the Debian users of Octave
that use it interactively, are using today octave3.0. However, there may be
cases where people run old, pre-3.0 scripts that only work with octave2.1 +
octave2.1-forge.
I would vote for keeping octave2.1 for now and drop it for lenny+1. We
already added notes to the package descriptions and in debin/NEWS about the
future drop.
--
Rafael
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