[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave3.0 3.0.0-1

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2007-12-22 21:59]:

> 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.

Okay, I think I will go ahead and release octave3.0 3.0.0-1 without the
epoch in its version number and as SVN r1133.  The source package will not
contain the empty octave package.  If it is necessary, we can introduce it
later.  I would expect some upgrading problems.

We should also request the removal of octave2.9 from the distribution.

Seasons greetings,

-- 
Rafael