[Pkg-octave-devel] removal of qtoctave?

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Tue Feb 25 07:04:10 UTC 2014


* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-02-24 17:34]:

> Le lundi 24 février 2014 à 00:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>>
>> 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.

Then, please, merge the deprecation branch into master and release a new 
version of the qtoctave package.  Note that my change will possibly 
irritate our users, because it delays by a couple of seconds the starting 
of the main QtOctave window.

Rafael




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