[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#792740: transition: octave4.0

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le samedi 18 juillet 2015 à 11:55 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > Please schedule a transition for octave 4.0. The new package is 
> > > already in
> > > experimental.
> > > 
> > > A few reverse dependencies will need sourceful NMUs. Patches are 
> > > ready, and the
> > > corresponding bugs will be open soon.
> > 
> > Please go ahead.
> 
> The transition is almost over. The 3 remaining blockers are octave
> -ltfat, octave-mpi and plplot.
> 
> For octave-{ltfat,mpi}: as a member of the Debian Octave Group, I
> suggest to remove them temporarily from testing (until we are able to
> provide a fix).

Removal hint added.

> For plplot: somebody seems to be working on the FTBFS (#789619), but
> there is no ETA, and the package is already marked for autoremoval in a
> few days. So I guess a removal from testing would be warranted, though
> of course it's your call.

It has reverse dependencies of its own, so I can guess we can wait a few
days while octave ages anyway. If plplot ends up being the blocker then
I'll start being more aggressive.

Thanks for your work on this transition.


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