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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2009-02-11 12:44]:

> * 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.

Everything is in experimental now.  All the octave-forge packages need
to be rebuilt against octave-pk-dev 0.6.4 and octave3.0 3.0.4~rc3-3.  This
is necessary because the packages path changed as above.

We can wait until the release of lenny and upload the new octave-forge
packages directly to unstable, though.

-- 
Rafael