[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] When are release versions bumped?

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Mon May 12 11:22:31 UTC 2008


* David Bateman <David.Bateman at motorola.com> [2008-05-12 10:00]:

> [...] Also I believe distributions like Debian would prefer to deal is a
> monolithic tar-ball rather than individual source packages and so even if
> the individual packages were released independently, there would probably
> remain a need for the monolithic releases.

We (the Debian Octave Group) have already moved towards the release of
individual packages.  There is still a monolithic octave-forge package for
octave2.1, though.  It will be present in the next release of Debian (code
name lenny) but will be dropped afterwards.

-- 
Rafael



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