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

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 23:52:36 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for taking care of updating the Breaks list.

> 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.

Octave actually doesn't quite work with Qt5 yet. Upstream has removed
the check for moc-qt5, etc, until the configuration and code are made
fully compatible.

> 3) Bug triage.  Are there bugs filed against the octave package that are
> fixed in 4.0.0 or became obsolete?

#740449, #759426, and #764809 (the latter two you already logged) should
be fixed. I'm building now, will respond to your other message about
problems with osmesa.

-- 
mike