[Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing octave 4.0.0~rc2 to experimental

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 18 avril 2015 à 23:52 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> I prepared version 4.0.0~rc3 of the octave package in Git.  I think it 
> will be ready for release to experimental, after the following issues 
> are addressed (or even without addressing them):
> 
> 1) Breaks list in d/control.  This list in d/control should be updated. 
> If someone comes out with a semi-automatic way of doing this, it will be 
> great.  Otherwise, we might declare the versions of all Octave-dependent 
> packages currently in unstable as broken, but I am nont sure this is a 
> good idea.
> 
> 2) Qt4 versus Qt5.  I added libqt4-dev and libqt4-opengl-dev to 
> Build-Depends, even though Octave seems to work with Qt5.  However, as 
> discussed in the upstream bug #40252, the moc-qt5 program is not present 
> in Debian unstable, so configure will fall back to Qt4, anyway.
> 
> 3) Bug triage.  Are there bugs filed against the octave package that are 
> fixed in 4.0.0 or became obsolete?

I would add these two others:

4) Describe the move to a GUI by default in the NEWS file, and document
the existence of --no-gui option and octave-cli for restoring the old
behavior.

5) Test on a s390x machine whether the dblquad-s390x.diff patch is still
needed. I am going to take care of this.

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