Question to Debian Etch users: Has someone managed to install the Octave-forge package for Octave 2.9

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 01/03/2008, Stefan Pofahl <stefan at pofahl.de> wrote:
> Good news for Debian users:
>  Upgrade to testing!

In Debian philosophy, this really isn't an "upgrade". Debian stable is
what users should be using if they want fewest bugs possible, and
although testing and unstable are actually more stable than their
names suggest, they may still break, and Debian does not vouch for
their functionality. Debian stable, however, does come with a much
stronger promise of security and stability.

The Debian recommendation for using newer software in the stable
distribution is to use *backports*.

     http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

There doesn't seem to be a backport of Octave 3.0 yet, but instead of
recommending users of Debian stable to move to testing, we should
backport Octave 3.0 instead. It's not that difficult; it might be as
simple as "apt-get source -b octave3.0" inside etch. No need to
introduce bugs to potentially all of Debian when we only want one
piece of newer software.

IMHO,
- Jordi G. H.