[Pkg-octave-devel] removal of qtoctave?

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 24 février 2014 à 00:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-02-23 11:14]:
> 
> > Le samedi 22 février 2014 à 17:03 -0500, Mike Miller a écrit :
> >>
> >> Even though the GUI does not come up by default, it is available, do we 
> >> agree that this transition the time for removal of qtoctave?
> >
> > I'm still a bit unsure. On one hand I'd really like to get rid of 
> > qtoctave (it is unmaintained), but on the other hand it's still working 
> > and I don't know if the native GUI is stable enough to replace it.
> 
> I sort of agree with Sébastien and would wait until the native GUI 
> becomes stable and the default before removing qtoctave.
> 
> In the meantime, we could patch qtoctave to inform the user in the splash 
> screen about the deprecation and the future removal of qtoctave from 
> Debian.  I prepared a patch for this in Git, on a branch called 
> "deprecation".  Please, try it and tell me what yu think.

That sounds like a good idea to me. It will facilitate the transition
for qtoctave users.

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