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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-05-13 22:25]:

> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:39:28PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > 3) NMU the the packages.
> > 
> > I can't directly help with that.
> > 
> > Thomas: do you think you have the time to do the NMUs? If not, I can
> > probably contact another DD who will sponsor the NMUs.
> 
> Sure, no problem. I already looked at pfstools, but I think it requires
> more than just a simple NMU (like a real maintainter).

What do you mean exactly by "requires more than just a simple NMU"?  I
guess that the patch that I proposed in the bug report against
pfstools should be enough.

At any rate, Bug#666959 is the last one blocking the Octave 3.2 -> 3.6
transition.  I hope it will be completed before the wheezy freeze.

Rafael