[Pkg-octave-devel] Version number for octav3.0

[Thomas Weber]

Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 21:59 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> I was planning to drop the epoch "1:" of the version number of the octave3.0
> package.  However, this does not work because the "octave" package will have
> version 3.0.0-1, which is lesser than the current 1:2.9.19-2.
> 
> The simplest fix is to keep the epoch and release octave3.0 1:3.0.0-1.
> Otherwise, we could create a separate "octave" package which would be empty
> and would have the epoch in its version number.
> 
> We could also just drop the octave package.  After all, octave3.0 provides
> octave.  Moreover, no octave package was generated from the octave3.0 source
> [1].  I do not know whether this will work or not.
> 
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/octave3.0/news/20071019T184134Z.html
> 
> We should make a decision quite quickly, otherwise the octave3.0 packages
> will not be released before 2008.

No idea. That said, I guess a simple version number is more important
than a virtual package.

	Thomas