[Pkg-octave-devel] Packages needing some action before freeze

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 09 janvier 2017 à 10:21 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> Le dimanche 08 janvier 2017 à 14:51 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2017-01-08 13:54]:
> > 
> > > The release is currently stalled upstream [1], because the Octave-Forge 
> > > admin is absent (probably on vacation, I don't know).
> > >
> > > Would you mind if I pushed version 2.1.0, so that we can identify 
> > > RC-bugs in Debian? I have already been able to “pdebuild” a Debian 
> > > package for amd64, but there might be problems with other architectures 
> > > which the Debian build infrastructure might find.
> > 
> > Assuming that version 2.1.0 will eventually be released, I do not 
> > think that releasing 2.1.0-1 to unstable is a inappropriate.  Let us 
> > see what the other members do the DOG think, though.
> 
> I am ok with this solution, as long as the Debian tarball is exactly the
> same (bit-to-bit) as the one that will be released through Forge.
> 
> If that condition cannot be met, I am not sure that it is a good idea to
> upload 2.1.0 to Debian. We are not supposed to upload a tarball that is
> different from upstream, except in cases where there is no other
> solution (for example when removing non-free stuff, or when upstream has
> only a VCS and does not ship a tarball).

I forgot to mention that an acceptable solution could be also be to
upload a custom tarball built from git, with a version number such as
2.1.0~git2381caf.

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