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Re: 2.9.11?


From: Rafael Laboissiere
Subject: Re: 2.9.11?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:31:18 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

* Thomas Weber <address@hidden> [2007-04-19 09:21]:

> Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 00:16 schrieb David Bateman:
> > The biggest remaining issue for a testing release for me is the package
> > manager. Till debian, fedora and MSVC builds sign off on the package
> > manager I don't think 2.9.11 will be really considered as a testing
> > release by the distributions..So it might be nice to check on the
> > progress of the use of the package manager for these three, to at least
> > avoid any hurried 2.9.12 release if possible.
> 
> A new Octave release is not a problem for Debian. We will currently stay with 
> 2.9.9 in the testing part of the distribution, until we've figured out how to 
> integrate the Octave package manager [OPM] with the distribution package 
> manager (or, more precisely: how to use the OPM for creating the packages).
> 
> Some ideas are available at 
> http://wiki.debian.org/OctavePackaging

Just to complement Thomas' info: the above wiki page is open to everybody,
not only to Debian Developers.  The ideas being discussed there are general
enough to be also useful for the RPM-based Linux distributions.  Everybody
is encouraged to contribute by editing the page (you will need to create an
account on wiki.debian.org before doing that).

-- 
Rafael


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