Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Packages octave2.1*_2.1.72-1 and octave2.9*_2.9.4-1 have been uploaded to unstable today. I worked quite hard during the last weekend to get both set of packages not conflicting with each other.
hey great job!!!!
Im not sure what the effects of disabling the glpk library...but if it is something user can live with temporarily that might be the best choice. Especially considering the uncertainties in the package at this time(in Debian and upstream).The octave2.9 package has a RC bug (#310226, severity: serious) filed against it. I am afraid the package will not stay very long in unstable due to the severity level of the said bug. One possible solution is to downgrade its level to "important". Another solution is to disable, if possible, the use of the glpk library at build time. At any rate, I already sent a patch to the maintainer of glpk to allow building shared libraries for glpk (http://bugs.debian.org/335237). There has been no much progress on this front, though. Please, comments are welcome.
Go and use octave2.9, spotting for bugs in the package. Advertisements are welcome. If someone could drop a note in help@octave.org, I would be very grateful.
sure I'll drop a note
Getting tired now,
sleep is good! C