[Pkg-octave-devel] Freeze ?

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-04-06 08:47]:
>
>> Since we have ported all our packages to Octave 3.6, I suggest to enter
>> a 10-day freeze period, during which we refrain from any upload. Since
>> our last package was uploaded yesterday, the freeze would end on Sunday
>> April 15th. If by that date no new RC bug has been opened and none of
>> the few remaining builds has failed, we could close the dummy RC bug
>> against Octave and have all our packages migrate to testing at the same
>> time.
>> 
>> I prefer not to wait for our reverse dependencies because 1) having our
>> packages in testing will increase the incentives for our rdeps to port
>> their package and 2) if we wait we will penalize those maintainers that
>> have already done the porting work (since they will have to wait for the MIA
>> maintainers before having their packages migrate to testing).
>
> I agree with the freeze idea.  As regards the rdeps, please, check with
> the release team if it is acceptable to have them broken in testing with
> the migration of octave_3.6.1.

My understanding is that they won't be broken, since they depend on
octave3.2 which is still around. They just won't be co-installable with
octave 3.6. Or am I missing something?

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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