Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2013-12-20 19:33]:
> So, to summarize the current situation, splitting would allow people who 
> don't want the GUI to save 30MB on their hard drive, and this is less 
> than 7% of the total install of 3.8 with recommends. In my opinion, this 
> confirms that splitting is not really worth it.

Agreed.

> Anyways, before we reach a consensus on that issue, would that be 
> acceptable for everyone if I upload 3.8.0-rc1 in its current state 
> (i.e. no splitting)?  We can always decide to split later, since we are 
> targeting experimental for the time being.

Sure, go ahead.

Rafael