Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal [N.B.: This request has been already filed as Bug#457675, but since there was issues with that bug report, I decided to restart it anew.]
Please, remove the source package octave2.9 altogether from unstable and testing (all architectures). In unstable, it contains only the "octave" binary package. In testing, the following packages should be dropped: octave - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.9 branch) octave2.9 - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.9 branch) octave2.9-doc - PDF documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch) octave2.9-emacsen - Emacs support for the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch) octave2.9-headers - header files for the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch) octave2.9-htmldoc - HTML documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch) octave2.9-info - GNU Info documentation on the GNU Octave language (2.9 branch) All these packages (besides "octave") are now superseded by the respective octave3.0* ones, and have become dummy binary packages generated by the octave3.0 source package. This will ease the upgrade path from etch to lenny. The upstream 2.9.* series of Octave was actually a pre-release series for 3.0. Thanks, Rafael Laboissière, in the behalf of the Debian Octave Group (http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org)
