[Pkg-octave-devel] Upload of new version of octave to unstable?

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 07:09:47PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> There is a quite large accumulation of commits in Git for the octave package
> since version 4.2.1-2, with fixes for Bugs #867212, #870657, and #870690.
> Also, commit a2f1edfe is needed for fixing Bug#874141.
> 
> My understanding is that we should not upload new versions to unstable now,
> because the package is involved in the gl2ps and libgfortran4 transitions.
> Is this really the case or could we upload a new version to unstable now ?

The Release team told me that it’s ok to upload to unstable despite the
libgfortran4 transition. And the gl2ps transition has not yet begun.

However last time I tried to build the package I got an "Illegal instruction"
fatal error in the testsuite (in libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst). I could
verify that it is related to the Qt5 move.

I think this needs to be either fixed or reverted before we can make a new
octave upload.

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