2nd call for patches

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com> [2008-09-21 08:32]:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:
> > * Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com> [2008-09-17 11:44]:
> >
> >> Next Wed I'm about to announce a freeze for 3.0.3, and I'll be longing
> >> for the regular builders to report successes :)
> >
> > Are you planning to provide release-candidate tarballs?  It would be a good
> > idea to do it, such that we (the Debian Octave Group) can test them before
> > the final release.
> >
> 
> Originally, I intended to just let everyone to grab the
> mercurial-supplied tarballs from
> http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x/archive/tip.tar.bz2
> However, I can also build pre-release distribution tarballs if you (or
> others) are interested. It's not much additional work. These differ, I
> think, only by the fact that they come with the documentation already
> built (so you don't need TeX and such stuff).

Yes, pre-release distribution tarballs would be better because we build the
Debian packages from them.  I am afraid we will miss some details using hg's
tip.tar.bz2.
 
-- 
Rafael