GNU Octave:

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/11/2013 05:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Susi Lehtola wrote:
>
>>
>> Quoting Suresh Raja
>> <sureshraja.cu at gmail.com>:
>>> Could someone update the GNU Octave in the EPEL repository to the
>>> current version 3.6.4?
>>
>> Can't. The EPEL6 branch is at 3.4.3, and a version upgrade is not
>> really allowed in the EPEL guidelines.
>
> Why not?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update
>
> Only mentions ABI changes or incompabilities.  Is this newer version known
> to be incompatible in some way?
>

Yes, it is ABI in-compatible.


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