[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#520220: Bug#520220: octave3.0: This release candidate snapshot should not enter testing

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:30:59AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Package: octave3.0
> Version: 1:3.0.4~rc5-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> This version of the octave3.0 package is based on a release candidate
> snapshot for the upcoming 3.0.4 version.  The upstream authors have told 
> us [1] that release candidates should not be distributed as Debian packages.
> 
> Let us keep this version in unstable for now.

Any plan how we should continue with this? We can't let any binary
octave-forge package into testing like that. The current octave3.0
packages in unstable and testing are ABI-incompatible.

	Thomas