On 09.05.2018 08:22, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:07:52 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> If there are fixes in the mercurial upstream repositories (but no new release >> yet), maybe we could upload mercurial snapshots? (I did not verify how many >> packages are in such a situation). > > John Donoghue posted a comprehensive list of Forge package status not > long ago > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2018-05/msg00033.html > > At least according to his testing, the image, interval, miscellaneous, > nan, nurbs, and tisean packages should build against 4.4. > > The general, linear-algebra, odepkg, and parallel packages have all been > fixed but not made a release yet. As the maintainer of the interval package, I can give a little insight: The current version installs in 4.4, but half of the unit tests fail because a regression (bug 53331) breaks one of two constructors. This has already been fixed in the repository. Another regression (bug 53456) greatly restricts console output and this makes the package no longer conform with IEEE Std 1788-2015. I'd say this needs to be fixed before a new version can be made, which works with Octave 4.4. In any case, a new upstream release will be needed. To sum up, I believe that most of above packages need thorough testing and fixing against Octave 4.4 and a new upstream release. > The ocs, secs2d, and sparsersb packages have not been fixed yet and have > open upstream bug reports filed: > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51510 > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44803 > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50764 I hope that now, after Octave 4.4 is out, there will be a package-fixing phase. Before 4.4 nobody cared that all packages continue to work (maybe some individual package maintainers happened to test particular packages against a release candidate). I guess that we will see a few upstream releases withing the next weeks and could plan for a transition in June or July. Oliver
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