[Pkg-octave-devel] Lenny release goals for the DOG

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-02 20:24]:

> Now, it might be the case that a software doesn't really care which
> version of Octave it is using (if you have only trivial .m files, for
> example). In this case, depending on "octave" is sufficient. Everybody
> else decides on the version for himself, please.

I think that the main concern here is about the end-user having to choose
between the different versions available.  It has been argued that "apt-get
install octave" should always install the recommended version of Octave.  By
chance, this is the case right now, because "octave" is a dummy package
provided by the octave2.9 source package that depends on octave2.9, which is
a dummy package depending on octave3.0.

Now, what will happen when octave2.9 will be dropped from sid and the lenny
users will do "apt-get install octave"?  Since "octave" will be a virtual
package provided by both octave2.1 and octave3.0 (and eventually octave3.1),
which one of those will be installed?

-- 
Rafael