[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#469701: RM: octave2.9 [all] -- RoM; Superseded by octave3.0

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

[N.B.: This request has been already filed as Bug#457675, but since there
was issues with that bug report, I decided to restart it anew.]

Please, remove the source package octave2.9 altogether from unstable and
testing (all architectures).  In unstable, it contains only the "octave"
binary package.  In testing, the following packages should be dropped:

octave - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.9 branch)
octave2.9 - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.9 branch)
octave2.9-doc - PDF documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch)
octave2.9-emacsen - Emacs support for the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch)
octave2.9-headers - header files for the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch)
octave2.9-htmldoc - HTML documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch)
octave2.9-info - GNU Info documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch)

All these packages (besides "octave") are now superseded by the respective
octave3.0* ones, and have become dummy binary packages generated by the
octave3.0 source package.  This will ease the upgrade path from etch to
lenny.

The upstream 2.9.* series of Octave was actually a pre-release series for
3.0.

Thanks,

Rafael Laboissière, in the behalf of the Debian Octave Group
(http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org)