[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#594906: Bug#594906: update octave-nan and bug fix

[Thomas Weber]

Hi Alois,

thanks for caring about your software in distributions.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Alois Schlögl wrote:
> Version 1.0.9 is really outdated and contains a bug.
> e.g. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30905

Is there something more critical than this bug fixed? Debian is in
freeze right now, so getting a new version into the next stable version
is difficult, unless:
 - the change is small (which ususally rules out a new upstream release)
 - the bug is critical.

> The bug was fixed in Oct 2009, and several new releases of octave-nan  
> have been made.

That's strange. I uploaded 1.0.9 at the end of december and I'm
reasonably sure that was the latest version I found at Sourceforge back
then.

Some information about 'watch' files: we use them to check upstream's
pages automatically for updates. In the case of NaN, Sourceforge still
lists 1.0.9 as the latest release.


> I've uploaded a new release to Octave.sf.net:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/NaN-2.0.4.tar.gz/download
> which was not picked up by debian.
>
>
> The latest release of Octave-NaN is always available from here:
> http://biosig-consulting.com/matlab/NaN/
> http://biosig-consulting.com/matlab/NaN/nan-2.3.0.tar.gz
>
>
> If there is anything I can do making it easier for debian to pick up the  
> latest release, please let me know.

If the above is a canonical place for the NaN package, that suffices.
However, right now an upload to Debian unstable (the normal development
version of Debian) is not possible, sorry. 

I can upload it to Debian experimental, but Ubuntu will not pick this
up (I think).

	Thomas