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

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2014-01-02 20:04]:
> I was actually wondering if adding a "Breaks: liboctave1" would not do 
> the job. I am still unsure. I guess it depends on whether non-Forge 
> packages depending on liboctave1 still work or not after the upgrade to 
> Octave 3.8.

I took a quick look at the non-forge packages that depend on liboctave1, 
which are:

  octave-vlfeat
  sdpam
  octave-psychtoolbox-3
  octave-plplot
  octave-pfstools
  octave-nlopt
  libsbml5-octave
  octave-gdf
  octave-lhapdf
  octave-gmt
  octave-biosig
  octave-sundials

They contain either *.mex or *.oct files and they all seem to depend on 
the octave interpreter for working.

We could test them and check whether they still work with octave 3.8.0 
installed, provided that liboctave1 is not removed.  However, it will be 
perhaps simpler to plan a transition and get all those packages rebuilt 
against liboctave2.

Rafael