[Pkg-octave-devel] New upstream version for the octave-forge pkgs

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Sun May 4 08:09:52 UTC 2008


* Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-05-04 01:38]:

> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:46:39PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > The Octave-Forge pkgs have been updated for Octave 3.0.1.  The corresponding
> > Debian packages should also be updated and we shold look whether the
> > Copyright issues have been fixed for the rejected packages [1].
> > 
> > Volunteers?
> 
> I should be able to do this, is there anything more to do with the
> former issue but just to bump up the version number in the changelog
> file and add a note there about the update?

Yes, that's it.  It is mostly mechanical work.

> The second issue was the source to the pdf files right?

Yes.  I think that some of the issues have been fixed upstream by David
Bateman.  For the tarballs lacking the documentation source files, we could
take them from SVN and include them in the Debian package via a quilt patch.

-- 
Rafael



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