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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-03-09 22:32]:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > 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?

Well, as I wrote in my previous message, octave-pkg-helper do this
currently.  In corner cases, nothing prevents the maintainer to add an
extra dependency, besides the usual ${octave:Depends}.

Anyway, what is the problem with io & textread?

Rafael