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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-05-22 22:34]:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:51:01AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-05-13 22:25]:
> > 
> > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:39:28PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Sure, no problem. I already looked at pfstools, but I think it requires
> > > more than just a simple NMU (like a real maintainter).
> > 
> > What do you mean exactly by "requires more than just a simple NMU"?  
> 
> It needs a maintainer.
>  1) Several versions behind upstream.
>  2) Still using QT3 (which would be solved by a newer upstream version).
>  3) Several NMUs for other transitions already.
> 
> > guess that the patch that I proposed in the bug report against
> > pfstools should be enough.
> 
> For the Octave transition, yes. However, if I touch the package, I might
> as well take care of the other stuff.

Thanks for the explanation.  It sounds like pfstools will not be in
wheezy...

Rafael