On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le samedi 18 juillet 2015 à 11:55 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > Please schedule a transition for octave 4.0. The new package is
> > > already in
> > > experimental.
> > >
> > > A few reverse dependencies will need sourceful NMUs. Patches are
> > > ready, and the
> > > corresponding bugs will be open soon.
> >
> > Please go ahead.
>
> The transition is almost over. The 3 remaining blockers are octave
> -ltfat, octave-mpi and plplot.
>
> For octave-{ltfat,mpi}: as a member of the Debian Octave Group, I
> suggest to remove them temporarily from testing (until we are able to
> provide a fix).
Removal hint added.
> For plplot: somebody seems to be working on the FTBFS (#789619), but
> there is no ETA, and the package is already marked for autoremoval in a
> few days. So I guess a removal from testing would be warranted, though
> of course it's your call.
It has reverse dependencies of its own, so I can guess we can wait a few
days while octave ages anyway. If plplot ends up being the blocker then
I'll start being more aggressive.
Thanks for your work on this transition.
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Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org
Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw
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