[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Luca Favatella]

On 17 March 2012 02:13, Luca Favatella <slackydeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2012 22:47, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> wrote:
>> Here is an update on the porting of the Octave-Forge packages for Debian.
>> Just as a reminder, we are porting the packages in order to make them
>> work with Octave 3.6.  Our goal is to have a reasonable suite of ported
>> packages before the freeze of the wheezy distribution, which will happen
>> in June 2012.
>>
>> I am writing mainly because we need more feedback from the developers and
>> users of the OF packages in order to better organize our work. Please,
>> comment on the points below.
[...]
>>    ga
>
> Hello Rafael,
>
> I will soon (in a couple of weeks?) release a new version of the ga
> package depending only on Octave 3.4.0 (or better) and with a cleaner
> unit test suite, so it will be more robust and easier to package/test.
> More details in the draft unreleased NEWS file [1].
>
> Regards
> Luca
>
> [1] http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/ga/NEWS?revision=9900&view=markup

Hello,

The new version (0.10.0) of the ga package is released (see [2]). Can
you please consider packaging it in Debian?
It should be easier to maintain because it has simpler dependencies
and a better unit test suite. It also fixes Debian bug #622929.

Regards
Luca

[2]
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPOrs_3m2H-qr8NDKXo0EfXgfN1eSKECSt6zLqXvxHZfwfd1tQ%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=octave-dev