[Pkg-octave-devel] HDF5 transition is finished

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> This morning, after an upgrade of my Debian testing system, I got
> octave3.2_3.2.4-12+b1 installed.  I assume that the HDF5 transition is
> over, at least as regards Octave.

Yes, the whole transition is over, so the sky is now clear for an upload
of octave 3.4 to unstable. I guess Thomas will do that when he gets the
time.

We have yet to decide whether to upload 3.6.1 before or after all the
octave-forge packages. I think we should upload 3.6.1 first if it turns
out that packaging it is easy (and it should be). I will check that if I
get the time.

> I guess you could soon upload 3.4.3 to unstable (or maybe even 3.6.1).  I
> checked the relationships for this version of the package and saw that it
> conflicts with octave3.2.  Would that be enough to get a smooth
> transition? According to the Policy manual [1], we might also add a
> "Replaces: octave3.2" relationship.  I am not really sure about this,
> since this can potentially break some code from our users, due to
> possible incompatibilities between 3.2 and later versions.

Thanks for pointing this. Indeed policy §7.6.2 indicates that, in our
case, we should have both Conflicts and Replaces. I pushed that change.

> It is time also for updating the Octave-Forge packages.  I wish I had
> time for participating again to the DOG.  At any rate, I was looking at
> the octave-pkg-dev package and spotted a harmless bug, fixed in the patch
> attached below.

Thanks, I pushed your patch.

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Sébastien Villemot
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