Octave 2.9 and Octave-forge

[Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso]

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions about
octave-forge, but maybe you can help me anyways.

I was using Octave 2.1 since that's what the Debian APT system
installed by default when I apt-got installed octave (unqualified by a
version number). Looking over its documentation, I noticed that it was
six years or so out of date, so I decided to upgrade to Octave 2.9
(.4, to be precise), which I hope is in a better stage of development.
Thinking that I didn't need the old octave 2.1 anymore, I apt-got
removed all traces of Octave 2.1, which to my surprise also removed
octave-forge, which lists Octave 2.1 as a dependency.

My question is this: is this a real dependency or a peculiarity of
Debian's APT system? Do I really need to be using an outdated version
of Octave if I want to be using the user-supplied and reputedly not as
good quality functions from octave-forge? Seems strange, but version
imcompatiblity is not unheard of in these realms.

Thanks,
- JGH



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