On 04/11/2013 05:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Susi Lehtola wrote:
>
> Quoting Suresh Raja
> <sureshraja.cu(a)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_...
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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