Re: linear-algebra 2.2.2 released

[Clemens Buchacher]

Philip,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> ><mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    Yep that is called 'progress". It's inevitable :-)
> >
> >    So for Octave-3.8.2 you 'll have to make do with linear-algebra-2.2.1.
> >
> >
> >We now have a latest release of Octave and a latest release of
> >linear-algebra which are incompatible by design.
> 
> Pardon me?

I am wondering about the following NEWS for 2.2.2:

   The linear-algebra package is expected to still work for older Octave
   versions than 4.0.0 as this "isnumeric" check is only additional.

Is this still valid? Because it's not actually possible to install it:

octave:2> pkg install -forge linear-algebra
error: the following dependencies were unsatisfied:
   linear-algebra needs octave >= 4.0.0
octave:2> version
ans = 3.8.2

Is this a mistake? If I download linear-algebra from
http://octave.sourceforge.net/linear-algebra/, I get a DESCRIPTION file
with this:

 Name: Linear-algebra
 Version: 2.2.2
 Date: 2015-04-05
 Depends: octave (>= 4.0.0)

On the other hand, if I hg clone
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/linear-algebra, I get for both the tip
and tag 2.2.2:

 Name: Linear-algebra
 Version: 2.2.2
 Date: 2015-03-06
 Depends: octave (>= 3.2.3), general (>= 1.3.0)

Shouldn't it be the same?

Clemens