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

[Søren Hauberg]

man, 12 05 2008 kl. 20:41 +0200, skrev 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. 

Not from an end-users perspective, I'd say. Back in ye olde days when I
started using Octave, I never installed Octave-Forge because I didn't
have all the dependencies installed. Now people can just install the
packages they need, and ignore the ones they don't need (on my work
machine I actually only have two packages installed).
  But yes, from a release point of view, not that much has changed...

Søren