[Pkg-octave-devel] Incompatibilities between octave3.0 and 3.1 packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2009-02-06 13:30]:

> Also, I think we will have problems with the /usr/share/octave/packages
> directory in a system with both octave3.0 and octave3.1 installed.  In
> order to fix this, we could patch pkg.m to look at a versioned directory
> like:
> 
> /usr/share/octave/packages/3.0/
> /usr/share/octave/packages/3.1/

In the process of preparing the release of 3.1.52-1, I am coping with the
issue above, among many other things. 

The packages directory is versioned now, as proposed above.  I did the
necessary changes to octave-pkg-dev and all the octave-forge-pkgs packages
build-depend now on octave-pkg-dev >= 0.6.2.

All these changes will be uploaded to experimental, such that we will have a
chance to fix any problems before the packages are uploaded to unstable,
post-lenny.

Tests and comments are welcome.

-- 
Rafael