Octave 3.4 packages for Debian/Ubuntu

[Daniel Arteaga]

Hi,

It has passed some time now from the release of Octave 3.4, but still 
Debian and Ubuntu have in its archives only packages for version 3.2, 
even in the developement/unstable version.

What is more, there are different packages for different versions of old 
releases of octave (octave3.0 and octave3.2). This is uncommon for most 
other software releases, and probably inpractical now that the plan is 
to make more frequent relesases (as far as I understand).

Do you know why is that? Who is the mantainer of the Debian packages?

I understand that making Debian packages is not the task of the Octave 
developers, but still most Linux users access to Octave through the 
package in their distribution.

Best,

Daniel