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octave2.9 package

  1. Bug #178424
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 178424

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Ming Hua (minghua) wrote : [Bug 178424] Re: Please sync octave3.0 3.0.0-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:23:44AM -0600, I wrote:
> 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.

Uhm, on a closer look, octave3.0 Conflicts/Replaces/Provides octave2.9.
So no, they are not installable in parallel.

Ming
2008.01.09