[Pkg-octave-devel] Versioning the dependency on octave for the OF packages

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Also, for future improvements to octave-pkg-dev, we may want to exploit
> the dependency versioning that is in the DESCRIPTION file of Forge
> packages. Ideally octave-pkg-dev should fail if the installed octave is
> lower than the required one. For instance, such a mechanism would have
> prevented #649395; see also #661123 for a similar problem, but in that
> case upstream also forgot to tighten the dependency.
> 
> It would also be useful to exploit the dependency versioning between
> Forge packages, for similar reasons.

This might make it difficult to upload new versions of packages. Yes,
textread is missing in the io package - do we really want to prevent an
update of octave-io due to this?

	Thomas