[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#511817: Bug#511817: inline-octave: inline-octave 0.22-3 FTBFS

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-01-14 20:42]:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:28:59PM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:
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> > Package: inline-octave
> > Version: 0.22-3
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: no longer builds from source
> > 
> > the package [1] FTBFS on all architectures.
>
> > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inline-octave/0.22-3ubuntu1
> 
> No, it doesn't, at least if you don't fiddle blindly with the
> build-dependencies.

Thanks for closing this false bug report, Thomas.

To the bug reporter: we thank you for your time in reporting the problem
but, please, next time try to be sure that the problem actually regards the
Debian package and not the Ubuntu one.  Debian maintainers are not
necessarily concerned by problems in the derived Ubuntu packages.  In the
present case, the MOTU Developers inadvertently bumped the build-dependency
from octave2.1 to octave3.0.

This makes me think about what should be done as regards this package
post-lenny. It doesn't seem to have any sign of upstream development since
ages (well, at least since four years) and octave2.1 will be dropped from
squeeze.  Should we try to port the package to octave3.0 or simply drop it
also?

-- 
Rafael