[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave3.2 3.2.0-1

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 21:27:09 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:14:06PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Git commit 30e53a4 of the octave3.2 package is very close to what should
> be committed to unstable.  As I write these lines, a last build ot the
> package is being run to see whether everything is okay.  If nobody
> objects, I will upload the package soon.
> 
> Since 3.2.0 is the new stable release, it will soon be used by our users
> instead of octave3.0.  This brings us to the issue of the octave-forge
> packages.  For now, they only work with octave3.0, thanks to the
> versioned directories /usr/{lib,share}/octave/packages/3.0/.
> 
> It is clear that we must make the octave-forge packages available for
> octave3.2.  However, I am not willing to maintain two sets of
> octave-forge packages, one for each of octave3.0 and octave3.2.  I
> propose to make them available for only octave3.2 (BTW, this is currently
> the case of image, fixed, and general).
> 
> At any rate, I propose to keep octave3.0 in unstable/testing for users
> who still need it (for instance, who have scripts that do not run on
> octave3.2) and we decide later when it will be dropped.
> 
> Do you guys agree with this plan?

Fine with me.

	Thomas



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