[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#670892: octave: octave.postinst failure after install, purge, and reinstall

[Sébastien Villemot]

Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:08:22AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
>> Package: octave
>> Version: 3.6.1-4
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> The following sequence results in octave being uninstallable due to postinst
>> failure.  Assume no octave packages installed initially:
>
> Sébastien, is there any reason to not upload a new octave version with
> your patch for 670892? I don't see any, but maybe I am missing
> something.

The only reason is that the release of 3.6.2 was announced to happen
soon, so I was waiting a little. But there seems to be some delay, so we
can upload this fix right now.

Also, we should probably upload a new octave-pkg-dev with the latest
changes by Rafael.

I will do both uploads tomorrow unless asked otherwise.

Following the advice of Julien Cristau, we should probably start NMUing
the packages blocking the removal of octave3.2. I can't help much since
Rafael already created the patches and I can't upload NMUs alone.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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