Orphanings/dead packaging libnc-dap; octave releases and octave-forge future

[José Matos]

On Saturday 05 February 2011 21:11:34 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm planning on dropping libnc-dap.  It is no longer supported and
> functionality has moved into the netcdf 4 library.
> 
> The only package currently requiring libnc-dap is:
> 
> octave-forge-0:20090607-17.fc14.i686
> 
> Also, apparently octave is planning a 3.4 release this weekend which I
> would like to see get into F15.  These two events I believe will drive
> the final stake into the heart of the octave-forge package at which
> point we will need to start packaging the components separately.  Since
> this is how upstream distributes them anyway, I see no reason not to
> move in this direction in all possible haste.  I will try to get back to
> my earlier efforts on creating a packaging template for octave packages
> as soon as I can.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> - Orion

Hi Orion,
	what has been done here and can I do to help the this effort?

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José Abílio