From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Nov 12 19:24:48 2005
Subject: Re: Octave 2.9.4 available for ftp
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:21:31 -0600

A few things to note about the 2.9.4 release:

1. In order to have all of the sparse features, you need the ufsparse 
library. There is a package for Fedora Extras (development version 
only). If there is interest in a creating a release of ufsparse for FC4 
as well (it still has octave 2.1.x, which doesn't need it), please let 
me know and I can add one. I don't know what the status of ufsparse in 
Debian is.

2. It appears that the PKG_ADD file in
/usr/libexec/octave/2.9.4/oct/<canonical_host_type> now contains 
commands with absolute path names (it didn't as of the last release), 
which are created at the make install stage. This is no problem for 
someone building and installing locally, but in packaging sytems that 
install in a temporary path (creating a deb or rpm, for example), the 
path name could be wrong (I learned this the hard way) and require some 
post-processing using perl or sed.

3. Changes in octave internals now make octave-forge-2005.06.13 break. I 
believe the necessary updates are in CVS (I haven't tried to compile it 
yet), but this means we probably need a new octave-forge release 
sometime soon.

I have a spec file ready for a 2.9.4 RPM for Fedora Extras development 
branch, but I am awaiting a rebuild of some required libraries. 
Hopefully there will be a release soon.

-Quentin