[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#667588: med-physics: Adjust for the new octave package version 3.6.1

Thu Apr 5 08:43:08 UTC 2012

* Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> [2012-04-05 08:43]:

> thanks for your work on octave.  I really welcome this step because the
> versionless packaging simplifies things for the metapackage building
> process.  I commited the relevant change to SVN however, the fact that
> octave (without verison) is currently only in unstable and not in
> testing has the consequence that it does not show up in the list of
> Recommends of the med-physics task.  The idea behind this is that the
> metapackages are targeting at the testing distribution and only those
> packages which are found in testing at package build time will be
> included.
>
> So I would like to do the final bug fixing upload once octave progressed
> to testing.  Please ping me (or the bug report) once this happened
> because I can not guarantee that I will keep an eye onto this.

Well, there is a virtual package octave in testing [1] that is provided
by octave3.2.  If you upload your changes now, I guess that both
med-physics and debian-science will happily enter testing.

Rafael

[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/octave