[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501022: Bug#501022: [octave3.0] Does not recognise packages
Thomas Weber
thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 09:09:33 UTC 2008
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
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