[Pkg-octave-devel] When are release versions bumped?

[Thomas Weber]

On 12/05/08 14:52 +0200, David Bateman wrote:
> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * David Bateman <David.Bateman at motorola.com> [2008-05-12 10:00]:
> Sorry slight misstatement on my part, from what I've seen with the
> distributions packaging octave-forge with RPMs the tendency is to have a
> single source RPM with a single SPEC file that creates all of the
> individual packages. Therefore the source package has the octave-forge
> package tar-ball in it rather than the individual packages... I don't
> think they want 50 or more individual source packages. Sorry I don't
> know how debian packages things.

Uh, I thought the switch to smaller packages was exactly to get rid of
one large release? I mean, the above is just a monolithic release in
disguise. 

	Thomas