Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Transition 3.8 -> 4.0

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org> [2015-05-29 17:46]:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 19:32:44 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea of how long it will take for having the octave
> > package accepted?  I thought that soversion bumps were dealt with quicker
> > than whole new packages.
>
> FWIW I uploaded src:openconnect with a soname bump to experimental on 
> April 5 and it was accepted on May 6, which looks like it was just 
> about the time NEW started to shrink. So a bit of an upper bound :)

Thanks for the information, this gives us some hope.  Perhaps, Octave 4.0 
will be released upstream even before the 4.0.0~rc4 package comes out 
from NEW.

Rafael