Re: Current status of PPA

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

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