Comment 4 for bug 178424

First the disclaimer that I am not an Octave user and doesn't know about
Debian's octave packaging.

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:26:08PM -0000, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Ming: Aren't the two packages installable in parallel? (Like cyrus2.1
> and cyrus2.2?) If so, users will have to do the upgrade manually, no?

Looking at the installed file list, yes, they seem to be installable in
parallel. However, Debian maintainers never intended to support (in a
stable release sense) both octave2.9 and octave3.0, they filed the
Request for Removal bug for octave2.9 the same day octave3.0 enters
unstable.

My upgrade path comment is mainly about the "octave" meta-package. Now
both unstable and hardy's octave depends on octave2.9. With octave3.0
installed, you need to use "octave3.0" command to invoke the 3.0
version.

To make my position clear: I am all for including octave 3.0 in hardy,
however to sync the unstable package as is doesn't seem to be an
adequate, or even correct solution. I'm merely asking for more
discussion on this issue.

Ming
2008.01.09