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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-03-29 22:36]:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > This would reduce the quarantine time the package must stay in unstable
> > before being considered for testing, which is ten days by default.  Whether
> > this would make them go faster through the buildd queue, I do not know.
> 
> And this is important because ... ?
> I am sorry, I allways like to know why we do things.
> You think that we wont be able to get 3.0 into Lenny unless we put the
> important flag on it? If so then yes, this is important.

Using urgency=high just reduce the quarantine period, but is not determinant
on the package being in lenny or not.  

> So the main culprit seems to be openmpi. There is a bug report out
> there that is related to this [1], we should keep an eye on that one
> perhaps.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376833

Thanks for the link.

Actually, we can get around the openmpi problem.  It will be enough if the
hdf5 maintainers disable the libhdf5-openmpi package for the problematic
architectures.

-- 
Rafael