Re: Octave 9 transition

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2024-05-20 09:46]:

> Le dimanche 12 mai 2024 à 00:03 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > Rafael
> >
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2024-05-11 22:20]:
> >
> > > Le samedi 11 mai 2024 à 11:02 +0200, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> > > > Le mercredi 27 mars 2024 à 14:30 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> > > > > I have requested a transition slot for Octave 9 (see #1067842).
> > > >
> > > > The transition has begun.
> > >
> > > It seems that octave-fits is not ready for Octave 9, it needs to be 
> > > fixed.
> >
> > We might simply ask for removal of octave-fits. The fits package seems 
> > abandoned and has been superseded by the cfitsio package [1].
>
> Then I suggest that we file a removal request for it.

Done: https://bugs.debian.org/1071499

> Please note that the transition is not over, and thus you should 
> refrain from any upload not related to it. Those uploads will only 
> delay the transition.

Oh, sorry, I uploaded octave-statistics 1.6.6-1 recently!

> The other blockers for the transition are currently octave-queueing and 
> octave-statistics, whose autopkgtest fail against Octave 9 according to 
> the octave tracker page.
>
> I still have to investigate what is the problem with octave-statistics.

Please, do it.

> It looks like upgrading octave-queueing to 1.2.8 would help (the new 
> release is not at the usual location, it has been moved to GitHub).

I will take care of octave-queueing.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière