[Pkg-octave-devel] Lenny release goals for the DOG

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail.com> [2008-03-02 09:06]:

> Btw, I haven't been following the discussion in the mailing list, but
> why do we have that ungainly 3.0 in the package name?

Indeed, octave3.0 is the recommended version of Octave, so that it could
seem logical to drop the version number in the package name.  However, we
wish to keep the versioned name in order to distinguish octave3.0 from the
development branch octave3.1 when this later will be released.

> Will that go away for the lenny release, once we get rid of 2.9?

No.

> Or will the octave dummy package simply point to 3.0?

We decided to drop the dummy package called "octave".  Actually, octave will
be a virtual package provided by all octave*.* packages.

Right now, octave is a dummy package provided by the octave2.9 source.  This
is one of the reasons we want to get rid of octave2.9 in sid as soon as
possible (and for this to happen we need your updated qtoctave package).

-- 
Rafael