* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [2021-03-08 13:19]:
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Dear Release Team,
This is a pre-approval request for unblocking package octave, version 6.2.0-1
Currently, bullseye contains a hand-crafted mercurial snapshot of octave.
Uploading a snapshot was made necessary because the previous official release
(6.1.0) had serious bugs, which were fixed in the mercurial repository.
Since then, a new official upstream bugfix release has been made (6.2.0). For
various reasons, it would be better to ship an official release in bullseye,
hence this request.
The debdiff is attached. I have filtered out all unrelevant stuff (copyright
header changes, regenerated files).
unblock octave/6.2.0-1
A further information regarding this request: the upload of version
6.2.0-1 of the package will fix Bug#983307 (liboctave-dev: Octave version
in Bullseye breaks SWIG integration).
Best regards,
Rafael Laboissière
