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

[Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 08:20:09 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Ok thanks. I consider this issue as a blocker for the upload to
> experimental, because it determines the name of the liboctave package.
> If upstream decides to bump the SOVERSION (which it should), the package
> will be named liboctave3. If it doesn't, we have to patch octave to
> change the SONAME, and we'll probably use something like liboctave2a
> (using suffix letters seems to be standard practice in Debian for
> bumping SONAMES when upstream forgets to do so).

Agreed.

> How should we deal with this issue upstream? Do you want me to open a
> bug report? Or can you act directly?

I just sent a mail to the maintainers list and jwe directly with some
examples of the library incompatibility.

Thanks for noticing this,

-- 
mike