[Pkg-octave-devel] State of the Union

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-02-02 15:28]:

> On 02/02/08 13:59 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > 1. Getting octave3.0 into testing
> > =================================
> > 
> > I think we are stuck for now, unless an arm g++ guru can help us.
> 
> We are not alone on this, see
> 460419, 458745
> 
> Especially the first report (crashes before actually stepping into the
> function) seems to describe our problem.

Thanks for the more precise description.

> >    * Just wait until we migrate from g++ 4.1 into g++ 4.3 (see section 4.
> >      below).  Perhaps the problem will magically disappear.
> 
> I don't think a new gcc suite will help here. However, maybe we are
> lucky and hit a buildd were it works.

Who knows?  I am crossing the fingers...

> >     * The maintainer of wims will make his package depend on the virtual
> >       package "octave" [11].  This will be fine.
> 
> I thought the removal of octave2.9 means that also the "octave" package
> will be dropped? Can we provide a package that actually doesn't exist in
> the archive?

I meant the *_virtual_* octave package.

> > In the meantime, Steve Langasek has filed a bug report with severity level
> > "serious", complaining on the fact that octave3.0 provides octave2.9 and
> > that this is bogus [12].  We agree with him and hope that everything will be
> > okay after the removal of octave2.9.  We will then be able to completely
> > drop octave2.9 from Debian and the Provides line from octave3.0.
> 
> Dropping the "Provides" for 2.9 is easy, but what about "Provides:
> octave"? wims is about the only package that actually doesn't care which
> version of Octave is installed (no .m files, no .oct files).

I think that "Provides: octave" should be okay.

> > Mathias Klose has formally requested that both octave3.0 [18] and octave2.1
> > [19] use GCC 4.3 for lenny.
> 
> I understand his bugs in that we shouldn't depend on gcc-4.1 explicitly?

Yes, you are right.  However, we must also change g77 to gfortran in
build-depends, because g77 only existed until the GCC 3.4 release, which
will be dropped from sid/lenny.

-- 
Rafael