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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-05-13 14:39]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > I think that we should go down the following road:
> >
> > 1) Ask for the removal of the octave3.2* package from testing and
> >    unstable.
> 
> Done.
> 
> > 2) Change the severity level of all blocking bugs to "serious".
> 
> Done.

Great.  Thanks for that.

> > 3) NMU the the packages.
> 
> I can't directly help with that.
> 
> Thomas: do you think you have the time to do the NMUs? If not, I can
> probably contact another DD who will sponsor the NMUs.

FYI, I am already taking care of xmds (Bug#666501).  I cannot NMU, but I
will prepare the changes in SVN for the Debian Science Team.

Rafael