[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave3.0 3.0.0-10

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:51:00AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I intend to upload octave3.0 3.0.0-10 to unstable as in SVN r1531, at least.
> This will get into the way of the suitesparse transition but is a necessary
> move because the package is currently not installable, due to the transition
> in hdf5 1.6.5 -> 1.6.6.
> 
> This means that the transition into testing will be delayed by an
> indeterminate amount of time.  However, this is already the case, because
> the petsc package is blocking everything and there are no signs of the issue
> getting resolved any soon.
> 
> Also, the autobuilders for arm, armel, hppa, mips, mpisel,a dn s390 will
> have to wait until hdf5 1.6.6 gets built (this is blocked by openmpi).
> 
> If you object to the upload, tell me quickly.  On the other hand, if you
> wish to have further fixes in octave3.0, it's the right time to do it now.

Sounds good to me.

> A subsidiary question: should we set urgency=high in debian/changelog?

Any perticular reason for this?

> Rafael [who is getting crazy with the suitesparse transition]

Yeh, this suitsparse transition thing. I have spent some time looking
through the release.debian.org and other stuff for this matter and it
seems to me that all these packages are waiting for each other, I
can't see any one (or more) package that is hindering any of them.
What is the main problem there?

Oli