Re: feature freeze -> 3.0 release

[Thomas Weber]

Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2007, 13:37 +0200 schrieb Shai Ayal:
> On 9/23/07, Thomas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 09:57 +0100 schrieb Shai Ayal:
> > > On 9/22/07, Soren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > David Bateman skrev:
> > > > > The only thing I really really want to see fixed before 3.0 is that at
> > > > > least one distribution is happy with the octave package manager. After
> > > > > the changes to pkg.m are in can we have at least one test release 
> > > > > prior
> > > > > to a full release? In that case might we have a 2.9.15 is a very short
> > > > > time if I get a patch together for pkg.m that Orion is happy with? If 
> > > > > so
> > > > > I'd put off an octave-forge release for 2.9.14 to get pkg right and
> > > > > release octave-forge based on 2.9.15.
> > > > I agree very much with these thoughts! I consider the package manager
> > > > broken if no distributors picks it up...
> > >
> > > I agree -- this is the key issue which should be solved before 3.0 --
> > > it is very telling that fedora core's last rpm is from 2.9.9 (I think)
> >
> > It just tells that Quention doesn't have much time (which I think he
> > said on the list).
> >
> >
> > > -- It would be a shame to release a major release which would not be
> > > distributed in the major distributions.
> >
> > Most distributions have more or less up-to-date versions of Octave in
> > their development branches.
> >
> I/m sorry, I work with fedora. So is the package problem solved for,
> lets say, debian? If so than maybe this isn't really a problem and
> 3.0.0 shouldn't be delayed

If you mean the Octave package:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2007-September/002680.html

That's a request for upload, so as soon as Rafael has some time, the
package should land in unstable.

If you mean the Octave-forge packages:
I'm not aware of anyone currently working on this for Debian. Gentoo has
some packages, but I don't know how many and how they are actually
packaged:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179885

        Thomas