* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2017-09-04 22:49]:
Notice that this patch should only be released in autodep8 when version 1.5.1 of the source package octave-pkg-dev (which contains the package octave-autopkgtest) reaches unstable. Since this version introduces a new binary package, it will certainly goes through the NEW queue.
Indeed: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/octave-pkg-dev_1.5.1.html Rafael