[Pkg-octave-devel] octave in sid?

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,

>However, I'm wondering if instead all this stuff, we cannot begin by
>trying again to add "Breaks: liboctave3v5" in octave 4.2 (instead of
>the long list of Breaks). That would be the most elegant solution. In
>the past, this was not possible because of #671711. But even with this
>bug fixed, there was still a problem (see octave 4.0.0-3 changelog
>entry).
>
>Now that the octave trigger will be of the -noawait type (see commit
>3cf8b78ff4 in octave git repository), I am wondering if it could not be
>working this time. I have to admit that I don't remember exactly why
>the "Breaks: liboctave2" did not work for the previous transition, so
>I'm not sure it will work this time.  Anyways, I am willing to give it
>a try. 
>
>Any thoughts?


this sounds a good idea! lets see how much has dpkg improved in the last 5 years :)

I sync'd in Ubuntu, and I'll report back in case I spot upgrade issues!

Fingers crossed,
thanks a lot for the nice change

Gianfranco