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

[Luca Favatella]

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.
[...]
> The following packages are already in Debian and worked correctly with
> Octave 3.2, but have not yet been ported to Octave 3.6.  We need to know
> two things: first, which ones of those must absolutely be ported.
> Second, which ones of those should be removed from Debian.
>
[...]
>    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