[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2 for stretch

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2016-06-30 16:47]:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 01:26:15 +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>>
>> The libhdf5-dev package has version 1.10.0-patch1+docs-1~exp in experimental 
>> while, in unstable, it has version 1.8.16+docs-8. Something changed between 
>> these versions that make Octave FTBFS.
>>
>> Do you know if there is any fix for it ?
>
> Yes, the HDF5 API changed in version 1.10.0. There is a patch [1] 
> waiting to be reviewed and applied. I'll try to get to that very soon.
>
> [1]: https://savannah.gnu.or<g/bugs/?47858

Great.  I already prepared the package in Git for experimental.  As soon 
as the as soon as the patch above is integrated into the Mercurial repo, 
I will release the snapshot package to experimental.  Keep me posted.

Rafael