[Pkg-octave-devel] Could octave 3.2.5 get into squeeze

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 22 October 2010 03:50, Kim Hansen <kim at i9.dk> wrote:

> I know that there is some kind of
> freeze on Debian but I don't really know what it means.

It means that the goal is to release a version that is known to
integrate well with the rest of the Debian system and is not release
critical (roughly, stable enough for production work, even if not the
newest or most featureful).

You may be frustrated with the pace of Debian development. There is
much talk about a Constantly Usable Testing rolling release of Debian
in order to address this concern. You may want to look that up. I
expect it will happen "soon" which in Debian time scales, is probably
a couple of years, to be slightly pessimistic. ;-)

> Is it too late now, should I try to get a new octave 3.2 release or
> should I try to get you to patch the Debian package?

Patching the squeeze package is likely be too much work, and the bugs
you don't like, although annoying, are not release critical.

I expect the 3.4 release, when it happens, will get backported to
squeeze. After that, hopefully CUT happens soon in order to alleviate
these problems.

- Jordi G. H.