Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> writes: > On 9 March 2012 16:32, Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >>> Also, for future improvements to octave-pkg-dev, we may want to exploit >>> the dependency versioning that is in the DESCRIPTION file of Forge >>> packages. Ideally octave-pkg-dev should fail if the installed octave is >>> lower than the required one. For instance, such a mechanism would have >>> prevented #649395; see also #661123 for a similar problem, but in that >>> case upstream also forgot to tighten the dependency. >>> >>> It would also be useful to exploit the dependency versioning between >>> Forge packages, for similar reasons. >> >> This might make it difficult to upload new versions of packages. Yes, >> textread is missing in the io package - do we really want to prevent an >> update of octave-io due to this? > > I'm not really following. Is there something we should be fixing in > the upstream package? Add a dependency? Just say the word... It’s a Debian specific issue: basically we uploaded a version of io too recent for octave 3.2. See #649395 as mentionned in my previous email. -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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