Søren Hauberg wrote: > fre, 08 05 2009 kl. 23:58 +0200, skrev Rafael Laboissiere: > >> * Søren Hauberg <so...@hauberg.org> [2009-05-08 23:43]: >> >>> The packages have been checked against the development version of >>> Octave. Thus, some packages will require 3.1.55 or later function >>> properly. That being said, must packages should work on 3.0.x releases >>> as well. >>> >> This is an issue for Debian. We took the decision to support only >> octave3.0 in the testing and unstable distributions. The octave3.1 >> package does exist but only in the experimental distribution and it is >> not really visible for most of our users (well, there are those crazy >> users that add the experimental repo to their apt source list). >> >> This means that any Octave-Forge package that requires 3.1.x will be >> precluded from Debian. >> > > This is reasonable. I believe that all packages which require 3.1.x > mention this in their DESCRIPTION file as a dependency. If they don't, > then it's a bug. > > Søren > > Be careful as there were quite a number of functions other than imread and imwrite that were ported to the Octave core. So even if a package supports 3.0.x its possible that there'll be a regression in the functionality. Other function that I know moved from octave-forge are csvread, cvswrite, and dlmwrite, though there are surely others
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