[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2.1 in unstable?

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-06-18 09:52]:

> Le dimanche 18 juin 2017 à 08:56 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
>> Stretch was released yesterday.  Should we upload octave 4.2.1 into 
>> unstable now?
>
> I don't think we can. Since the SOVERSION of liboctave has been bumped, 
> we need to plan a transition with the release team.
>
> The immediate tasks are therefore the same as usual:
>
>  - test that reverse build-dependencies still compile
>  - open a bug against release.debian.org
>  - update the list of Breaks in the octave package

The list of reverse dependencies to liboctave3v5 is quite big (see 
below).  Should we share the work of checking the compilation against 
Octave 4.2.1?  Who is going to help in this task?

Rafael

  dynare
  libsbml5-octave
  octave-biosig
  octave-communications
  octave-control
  octave-econometrics
  octave-gdf
  octave-general
  octave-geometry
  octave-gsl
  octave-image
  octave-interval
  octave-io
  octave-lhapdf
  octave-linear-algebra
  octave-ltfat
  octave-mapping
  octave-miscellaneous
  octave-mpi
  octave-msh
  octave-nan
  octave-netcdf
  octave-nlopt
  octave-nurbs
  octave-ocs
  octave-octclip
  octave-odepkg
  octave-optim
  octave-optiminterp
  octave-parallel
  octave-pfstools
  octave-psychtoolbox-3
  octave-quaternion
  octave-secs2d
  octave-signal
  octave-sockets
  octave-sparsersb
  octave-stk
  octave-strings
  octave-struct
  octave-sundials
  octave-vlfeat
  sdpam