RE: Time for a 4.0.1 bug fix release?

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:56 PM
> To: JohnD; address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Time for a 4.0.1 bug fix release?
> 
> On 10/27/2015 01:32 PM, JohnD wrote:
> >> I went through the list of packages, and their new releases.  Here's
> >> what
> > I found.
> >
> > I have been trying to keep the mxe-octave repo (in terms of the
> > version numbers that will be packaged by default if someone downloads
> > mxe and compiles it) up to date with the current release of any
> > package that appears in the octave-maintainers announcements
> >
> > So my vote would be 3.
> 
> For a bug-fixing stable release, should we really be updating
dependencies, or
> should we just stick with what we used to build the prior stable release
unless we
> know of critical bugs that should be fixed?
> 
> jwe


I had stopped updating major versions on most libraries, build tools etc
with the exception of minor releases/bugfixes

Except for octaveforge packages - which havent most of the updates for
octaveforge packages been mainly catching up on octave 4 ?