[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#665326: Bug#665326: Bug#665326: Bug#665326: confused by disapparance of octave-depends (nothing in changelog)

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:59:15AM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> I guess we removed it without notice because we were not aware that it
> was used by packages maintained outside the Debian Octave Group.

Yes, indeed.

> Concerning where to put the removal notice: NEWS.Debian does not seem
> appropriate because we don't want to tell all octave users about
> something which is used at most by a few packagers; I would rather add a
> line to changelog.Debian: technically it belongs to the entry for the
> 3.4.3-1 version, but I am not sure it is acceptable to modify an old
> entry afterwards.
> 
> Thomas and Rafael: what do you think?

Just put it in an old changelog entry. People will look at the changelog
and I don't think it really matters when the entry was added; just that
the version is the correct one and people have a chance to find it.

	Thomas