Re: recent version of octave in debian buster?

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

thalasso <thalasso@t-online.de> writes:


> I tried to do a backport using this descritption:
> https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
>
> But that failed due to to dependency problems with debhelper-compat and
> debhelper.
>
> Is a backport from bullseye scheduled?
>
> Is there any other option for me as a non-expert in debian package
> bulding to get a up to date version of octave?

I did backport octave 5.2.0 from buster for my own use. AFAICT it was
just a matter of building with debhelper from backports.

d