[Pkg-octave-devel] Freeze ?

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-04-06 09:15]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
> 
> > 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?

Users will have problems if they have the old package octave_3.2.4
package installed.  When they will upgrade to octave_3.6.1, the
octave3.2* will be removed and, in consequence, all the rdeps that they
have installed.  This is what I mean by "break".
 
Rafael