GNU Octave:

[Rex Dieter]

Susi Lehtola wrote:

> 
> Quoting Suresh Raja
> <sureshraja.cu at 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_update

Only mentions ABI changes or incompabilities.  Is this newer version known 
to be incompatible in some way?

-- rex