Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.15 --> 3.0
* John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2007-10-08 15:18]:
> On 8-Oct-2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>
> | I think we should release right now the octave3.0 packages to Debian
> | unstable, but give it a "version" number 2.9.14-1 (supposing that we package
> | the current 2.9.14 tarball). These packages will be identical to their
> | current octave2.9 counterparts, with only the name changed. We could also
> | upload the new packages to the experimental distribution.
> |
> | The goal of the exercise is to get octave3.0 approved in Debian by the time
> | the real 3.0.0 is released to the world.
>
> I think it is OK to do this if you add a prominent note in the readme
> file that the octave3.0 package is a test release and the version
> number of Octave itself remains 2.9.x.
Okay, will do.
> It might also be good to prevent it from going into the testing, and I
> think it should not be the version that one gets when installing the
> "octave" package until 3.0 is actually released.
In this case, we should release it to experimental instead of unstable.
--
Rafael
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