[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#670892: octave: octave.postinst failure after install, purge, and reinstall

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-06-01 11:29]:

> Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:20:07AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:32:53PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 01:02:20PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >> > > Thanks for the explanation.  It sounds like pfstools will not be in
> >> > > wheezy...
> >> > 
> >> > Oh, it will be. Nothing like threatening a removal bug for waking up its
> >> > maintainers :)
> >> 
> >> pfstools' maintainer contacted me. He plans to upload an updated version
> >> over the weekend.
> >
> > Grumble, that didn't work out as expected, did it.
> 
> Looks like an NMU is the only safe solution, since the Wheezy freeze is
> getting very close.

I would gladly prepare the NMU based on the patch I attached to
Bug#666959, but I am fully discouraged by this comment:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666959#26

People seem to be serious as regards the removal of Qt3 in wheezy: 

    http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/11/#qt3
    http://wiki.debian.org/qt3-x11-freeRemoval

Rafael