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Re: Octave 6 transition



Le mercredi 09 décembre 2020 à 07:55 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2020-12-08 14:37]:
> 
> > So what do we do? Should we upload 6.1.0 to unstable, and hope that 
> > patches will arrive in time? Or shall we wait?
> > 
> > Note that if a 6.2.0 is released, it should be possible to upload it 
> > until the beginning of March (the Hard freeze begins on 2021-03-12, 
> > octave is a key package, and there is a 10-day migration delay). 
> > Moreover, it should be possible to upload targeted fixes after that 
> > date.
> > 
> > So I’m in favour of starting the transition, even though this is 
> > obviously a bet on the speed at which the regressions will be fixed.
> 
> I am also in favour of starting the transition, eventually leaving some 
> packages (like dynare, stk, interval, and vibes) out of it for now.

Octave 6 is now in unstable and built on all architectures.

It’s therefore now possible to upload to unstable all packages that
currently have a fixed version in experimental (except maybe plplot
since gnat 10 has not yet been uploaded to unstable).

Please avoid unrelated uploads until the transition is over (e.g.
octave-ga should ideally not be updated to the new upstream version,
unless of course this fixes some issue with octave 6).

>  I am 
> quite confident that the Octave upstream authors will fix the issues. If 
> this happens after the bullseye release, then we can backport the fix as 
> well as the packages that were left out.

Note that the right way of fixing bugs in octave is not via backports,
but via a stable update (which will remain possible even after the
release of bullseye, if the bug is serious enough).

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