Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2.1 in unstable?

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-06-19 12:32]:

> Moreover, the sundials package is in the process of being adopted by a 
> new maintainer, and a new upstream version is waiting in the NEW queue.

Thanks for heads up.  The answer to all our problems comes from the 
changelog in the NW queue [1]:

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sundials (2.7.0+dfsg-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (Closes: #798331, #809072)
    - Upstream dropped octave support, so the "octave-sundials" package is
      gone
[snip]
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That means, when sundials 2.7.0 reaches unstable, we just forget about 
octave-sundials and go ahead with the transition.

Rafael

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/sundials_2.7.0+dfsg-1~exp1.html