[Pkg-octave-devel] removal of qtoctave?

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 25 février 2014 à 08:04 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> * 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.

I think this is a good compromise for the transition period until the
native GUI becomes the default. I have uploaded your new version.

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