Re: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34071] run can't find and execute file with filename starting with a number

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 18 August 2011 22:05, Andriy Shinkarchuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> JordiGH, let me remember as you said few days ago in #octave IRC channel
> something like "Because of Debian Squeeze is current stable and release cycle
> of Debian is two years long we should ...", didnt you?
> Squeeze's stop support date is not announced yet even AFAIK. 3.2.4 is default
> version shipped with Squeeze.
>

I said that with my Debian hat on. I'm aware that 3.2.4 is the version
shipped with squeeze. This is a problem that has to be fixed. In fact,
I was looking right now at the Debian packaging of Octave, which has
gotten quite dusty from a couple of years of neglect.

But as far as my Octave hat, the current stable in Octave is 3.4.2,
and that's the one that we are trying to maintain. We simply do not
have the resources to maintain more than one stable release. I expect
Octave will release one more stable release in the 3.4.x series before
making a new 3.6 stable release, but that is up to the release manager
to decide (currently, jwe).

- Jordi G. H.