Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing octave 4.0.0~rc2 to experimental

[Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>]

Le lundi 20 avril 2015 à 13:32 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :

> I investigated a little bit further this issue.  Even though both 3.8.2 
> and 4.0.0 have the same API number (v49+), .oct files compiled with 3.8.2 
> do not produce the same results as those compiled with 4.0.0.  For 
> instance, with the octave-signal package installed (which contains 
> remez.oct) the following runs perfectly with 3.8.2:
> 
>      octave:1> remez (15, [0,0.3,0.4,1], [1,1,0,0]);
> 
> However, with 4.0.0, I get:
> 
>      octave:1> remez (15, [0,0.3,0.4,1], [1,1,0,0]);
>      error: remez: number of taps must be an integer greater than 3
> 
> I am afraid that we will have o declare Breaks relationships for all 
> packages containing .oct files.  What do you think?

I have seen that you have added these Breaks relationships, thanks for
that.

I am however a bit surprised by the fact that the SOVERSION of liboctave
has not been bumped upstream. It looks like it should have been, given
the breakage that you describe.

John, Jordi: could you please enlighten us about this issue?

Thanks,

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