[Pkg-octave-devel] octave transitions

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Jul 9 17:21:46 UTC 2015


* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2015-07-09 09:22]:

> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 12:26:10 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>>
>> I am wondering how we should proceed now.  Should we wait until all those 
>> transitions are completed before we upload Octave 4.0 to unstable?
>
> Maybe ask the release team if one way or the other makes their job 
> easier? OTOH that's a lot of transitions and if we wait we may not even 
> get to a new Octave before the end of the year.

Ok, I will do it soon.
>
> Should we start working through rdeps of octave to see which packages 
> need to be patched or updated to work with 4.0?

I have already looked at the rdeps.  I have patches for pfstools and 
nlopts.  However it only makes sense to file bug reports against these 
packages once the transition is started.

Rafael



More information about the Pkg-octave-devel mailing list