[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#740051: Bug#740051: octave-signal: new upstream version desired

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 25 février 2014 à 04:25 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit :

> Hi, fist of all, thank you very much for taking care of Octave in Debian.
> Your work is highly appreciated.
> 
> I would love to upgrade to octave 3.8, but there is one package that,
> currently, is a blocker for me: octave-image.
> 
> octave-image is apparently compiled against octave 3.8, but I can't upgrade
> my installation because some dependencies of octave-image (e.g.,
> octave-signal) are only compiled for octave 3.6.

Yes, this is normal. We are currently in the middle of the transition to
octave 3.8. The transition is tracked there:

 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/octave3.8.html

> I see that upstream's package 1.3.0 was already imported, which, according
> to
> 
>     http://octave.sourceforge.net/signal/
> 
> is compatible with octave 3.8. There are some other packages that
> octave-image depends on.  Is it only a matter of recompiling them?

We will upload the new octave-signal soon. Please be patient. The
transition is going on.

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