Le samedi 4 octobre 2008 11:21:59 Thomas Weber, vous avez écrit : > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:47:26AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > > Le samedi 4 octobre 2008 00:38:24 Thomas Weber, vous avez écrit : > > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:24:27PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > > > > Package: octave3.0 > > > > Version: 1:3.0.2-3 > > > > Severity: important > > > > > > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I tried Octave from Debian experimental: I installed octave3.0, > > > > -headers and -image. > > > > > > > > I then tried to use pngread (e.g.) from octave-image. The > > > > auto-completion works, but the function is not recognised : > > > > > > Yepp, ABI change in our Octave package, meaning you can't load .oct > > > files compiled with an earlier version of Octave. There's a reason it's > > > in experimental. > > > > > > Thomas > > > > Okay. Fine for me. > > > > Just to understand : non-working packages in experimental don't deserve > > bug reports ? > > Sure, but depending on the bug, you might be on your own. This is such a > case :) > > The problem is not the octave3.0 package in experimental, but the > different octave-forge packages in unstable. They need a recompile. This > however would mean that they wouldn't work with the current octave3.0 > package in unstable, so we would need a new octave3.0 package in > unstable as well. > > Did I mention that we are in a freeze? :) > > So, if you want me to upload all these packages, you will need to grant > me asylum afterwards - I fear the release team would come after me. > > Thomas Well... if this ABI change renders packages incompatible between them (i.e. octave-image in unstable and octave3.0 in experimental), my vision of the packages system is that they should conflict between them. I don't know how, that's why I report bugs and don't maintain packages (yet) ;) Anyway, best regards and thanks for your time ! Didier -- Didier Raboud, proud Debian user. CH-1802 Corseaux didier@raboud.com
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