[arch-general] What should be done with octave?
Hi, Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra. The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series. The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries. The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created? I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report. Regards, Neil Darlow
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: arch-general-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general- bounces@archlinux.org] Namens Neil Darlow Verzonden: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 13:44 Aan: arch-general@archlinux.org Onderwerp: [arch-general] What should be done with octave?
Hi,
Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra.
The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series.
The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries.
Gcc-libs 4.2.3-3 has been fixed to provide versioned provides for gcc-fortran and gcc-objc.
Neil Darlow wrote:
Hi,
Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra.
The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series.
The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries.
The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created?
I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report.
By the way, there are two PKGBUILDs of octave 3 in AUR : octave-devel and octave3.
Hi, Xavier wrote:
By the way, there are two PKGBUILDs of octave 3 in AUR : octave-devel and octave3.
There seems to be some confusion between the two but octave-devel appears to be more complete. I just thought that, as octave-3.0.0 is stable, it might be a good idea to have a version of it in extra so that octave-2.1.x can die a slow death ;-) Regards, Neil Darlow
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