[Pkg-octave-devel] Should octave2.1 ship with Lenny?

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-15 09:23]:

> with the upload of <insert large number here> -forge packages into NEW,
> we should discuss the inclusion of octave2.1 into Lenny. 
> 
> Quite frankly, I'm in favor of getting rid of it. If someone reports a
> bug in it to us, we ask them to check with octave3.0 already. If they
> ask upstream, they are told to try the 3.0 branch. So, octave2.1 is
> basically unsupported by anyone. 
> 
> Additionally, most add-on packages (octaviz, qtoctave, ...) only work
> with octave3.0.

I think we already discussed about this and we agreed to ship octave2.1 with
lenny.  I agree with all your arguments above but it is the tradition in
Debian to provide smooth transitions.  I think the Debian users of Octave
that use it interactively, are using today octave3.0.  However, there may be
cases where people run old, pre-3.0 scripts that only work with octave2.1 +
octave2.1-forge.

I would vote for keeping octave2.1 for now and drop it for lenny+1.  We
already added notes to the package descriptions and in debin/NEWS about the
future drop.

-- 
Rafael