fre, 08 05 2009 kl. 23:58 +0200, skrev Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> [2009-05-08 23:43]:
> 
> > I've just made a release of the Octave-Forge packages. [snip]
> 
> Thanks for that.  I appreciate your work and I trust it was not trivial
> to do.

The major issue is that it takes quite a while and it is horribly
boring :-(

> > The packages have been checked against the development version of
> > Octave. Thus, some packages will require 3.1.55 or later function
> > properly. That being said, must packages should work on 3.0.x releases
> > as well.
> 
> This is an issue for Debian.  We took the decision to support only
> octave3.0 in the testing and unstable distributions.  The octave3.1
> package does exist but only in the experimental distribution and it is
> not really visible for most of our users (well, there are those crazy
> users that add the experimental repo to their apt source list).
> 
> This means that any Octave-Forge package that requires 3.1.x will be
> precluded from Debian.

This is reasonable. I believe that all packages which require 3.1.x
mention this in their DESCRIPTION file as a dependency. If they don't,
then it's a bug.

Søren


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