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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le dimanche 18 juin 2017 à 10:07 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> * 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?

I suggest that for the time being we only test reverse dependencies
that are not maintained by the DOG, so that we can open bugs early
enough against them and therefore warn maintainers.

For packages maintained by us, since we have total control over them,
it is more acceptable not to test them beforehand and to fix problems
only after the transition has started.

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