[Pkg-octave-devel] [lenny octave-ga package] please upgrade to svn >= 20080816

[Thomas Weber]

Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2008, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Luca Favatella:
> 2008/8/17 Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:58:53PM +0200, Luca Favatella wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm a Debian user and the mantainer of the Octave "ga" package.
> >>
> >> The version of the octave-ga package in Debian is 0.1.1.
> >> That version is in bad shape, untested and probably not working.
> >
> > Why did you release it then? Just curious, you have been working on the
> > package quite a lot in the last few months.
> 
> The first version of the package (0.1.0) I submitted on octave-forge
> was working (even if in bad shape).
> 
> Then in version 0.1.1 I switched from the use of some my code to other
> functions in Octave (to reduce the amount of code to mantain).
> I didn't test it because of lack of spare time.
> 
> When I had more spare time (1 month ago) I almost totally rewrote the package.
> Now it is in better shape and working.

Okay, that explains.

> >> Please release Lenny with the current (>= 20080816) svn of the "ga" package.
> >> This version is in better shape and more tested.
> >
> > Can you supply me with a tarball of that version?
> 
> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/ga.tar.gz?view=tar

Eh, no. That's just a snapshot of the current trunk; specifically, it
lacks the Changelog you get when using the release system of
octave-forge. But never mind, I've got a complete tarball in the
meantime (although I'll remove the doc/old_stuff directory, I don't
think it should be in a release version).


> > Please open a bug as Rafael suggested. You know the package, so you know
> > where the current version breaks.
> 
> I opened a bug against the octave-ga package with severity serious.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495489
> 
> I used the instructions found at
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> sending an email to submit at bugs.debian.org.

Fine, thanks.

	Thomas