On 08/30/2010 10:14 PM, Thomas Weber wrote:
Hi Alois,
thanks for caring about your software in distributions.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Alois Schlögl wrote:
Version 1.0.9 is really outdated and contains a bug.
e.g. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30905
Is there something more critical than this bug fixed? Debian is in
freeze right now, so getting a new version into the next stable version
is difficult, unless:
- the change is small (which ususally rules out a new upstream release)
- the bug is critical.
The bug was fixed in Oct 2009, and several new releases of octave-nan
have been made.
That's strange. I uploaded 1.0.9 at the end of december and I'm
reasonably sure that was the latest version I found at Sourceforge back
then.
Some information about 'watch' files: we use them to check upstream's
pages automatically for updates. In the case of NaN, Sourceforge still
lists 1.0.9 as the latest release.
It seems the debian watch file for octave-nan is also broken:
http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/report.php?package=octave-nan&Display=Submit+Query
* *Name:* octave-nan <http://packages.qa.debian.org/octave-nan>
o *Pop Inst:*
o *Upstream version: * none
o *Debian version: *1.0.9-1
o *Last time checked: *2010-08-29 06:16:05
o *Last time found up to date: *2010-08-29 06:16:05
o *Total continuous failures: *42
o *Tot Upstream Bugs: *0
o *Avg days opened: *0
o *Distrib: *unstable
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/octave-nan>
o *Watch: *view
<http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/wwiz_detail.php?id=33493299&type=watch>
o *Uscan errors: *
uscan.pl warning: In watchfile /tmp/octave-nan_watchpNjOQe,
reading webpage
http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html failed: 404 Not
Found
o *Copyright: *view
<http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/octave-nan/octave-nan_1.0.9-1/copyright>
Alois
