Re: Current status of PPA

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 17:22:49 +0100, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>> What is the status of the Ubuntu PPA for Octave stable releases?
>>> We are planning a cluster update for the next Ubuntu LTS and I was
>>> wondering if it will be needed to compile stable (3.8.1+) from sources
>>> or just use the PPA.
>>
>> I replied to this earlier [1]. Still relevant, I'd like to see Octave
>> move into the official Ubuntu repos, and take that source package and
>> backport it to LTS releases in the PPA. If I were going to make a
>> policy about the PPA, that would be it, that it shouldn't have
>> packages that aren't in Ubuntu official repos.
>>
>> Now that we have a transition slot set up in Debian and packages are
>> starting to move into the unstable archive, they may start syncing
>> into Ubuntu soon. Then we can have a backport to LTS in the PPA. Until
>> then, you can grab the latest Debian source package [2] yourself and
>> build it for whatever Ubuntu release you like, or build from source
>> manually.
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Re-Octave-3-8-0-Released-tp4661060p4661061.html
>> [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/source/octave
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> --
>> mike
>
> Mike,
>
> Thank you for your answer!
> I fully support your point of view. I will compile from sources for
> ubuntu and make a crappy package to distribute to the cluster.
>
> Thanks

BTW, I do tno follow all the threads in the mailing list and "Re:
Octave 3.8.0 Released" did not indicate that that thread was about PPA
:D.
I did search but did not see that link. Thanks anyway.