Re: recent version of octave in debian buster?

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* thalasso <thalasso@t-online.de> [2020-10-25 16:03]:

> I would like to use a more recent version of octave than 4.4.1 - 
> preferably as recent as possible :)
>
> 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?

I have uploaded version 5.2.0 of the octave package backported to 
buster.  It is now in the NEW queue:

https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/octave_5.2.0-3~bpo10%2B1.html

Best,

Rafael Laboissière