Hi, After 4 months of waiting in the NEW queue, octave 6.4 has finally been accepted in experimental (after I pinged ftpmasters on irc). So we could now request a transition slot before uploading it to unstable (because there was a SONAME bump in octave 6.3, and unstable currently has 6.2). However, upstream has already started the release process for version 7. The first release candidate, versioned 7.0.90, is available for testing. So an alternative path would be to forget about having 6.4 in unstable, upload 7.0.90 in experimental soon, and plan for the transition when 7.1.0 is released. That would spare us a transition. I think the only other factor to take into account is Ubuntu. The next Ubuntu release (Jammy Jellyfish, 22.04) will be a LTS, and the Debian Import Freeze will be on February 24. If Octave 7.1.0 is released early enough, we may complete the transition before that date, but there is no guarantee, and if we fail that means that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will ship with Octave 6.2. Alternatively, if we start the Octave 6.4 transition now, we could have at least Octave 6.4 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I personally don’t use Ubuntu, so my preferred solution is to skip the 6.4 release and jump directly to version 7. But I’d like to hear your opinion. Best, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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