[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501022: Bug#501022: [octave3.0] Does not recognise packages

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Le samedi 4 octobre 2008 11:21:59 Thomas Weber, vous avez écrit :
> Well...
> 
> if this ABI change renders packages incompatible between them (i.e. 
> octave-image in unstable and octave3.0 in experimental), my vision of the 
> packages system is that they should conflict between them.

You are assuming that breakage was intentional, it was not :)

However, it took some time until someone noticed it. So all packages in
unstable and testing have a different ABI then they should have, but
they are consistent with the packaged Octave versions.

> I don't know how, that's why I report bugs and don't maintain packages 
> (yet) ;)

As Rafael told you, this is a lot of work for what will be done by
normal uploads in a few weeks, hopefully.

	Thomas