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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 21 juin 2017 à 00:40 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-06-19 12:32]:
> 
> > Moreover, the sundials package is in the process of being adopted by a 
> > new maintainer, and a new upstream version is waiting in the NEW queue.
> 
> Thanks for heads up.  The answer to all our problems comes from the 
> changelog in the NW queue [1]:
> 
>  ############################################################################
>  sundials (2.7.0+dfsg-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
> 
>    * New upstream release (Closes: #798331, #809072)
>      - Upstream dropped octave support, so the "octave-sundials" package is
>        gone
>  [snip]
>  ############################################################################
> 
> That means, when sundials 2.7.0 reaches unstable, we just forget about 
> octave-sundials and go ahead with the transition.

Actually, sundials 2.7 may not reach unstable soon, since currently it
is waiting in the NEW queue for reaching experimental.

Anyways, I could verify that the FTBFS of sundials is:
1) not related to octave 4.2 (it also happens with octave 4.0)
2) does not happen when building with sbuild (like on Debian buildds),
because octave can't write $HOME/.octave_hist and therefore exit before
crashing (because HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent/).

So even the current version of sundials should not an actual blocker
for the transition.

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