Build System Questions

[Quentin Spencer <qspencer ieee org>]

Firstly, is the build system stuck again? It does not seem to have 
changed state for a while again.

My more important question is regarding how it imports dependencies. 
Yesterday I made some changes to octave and requested a build of 
octave-2.1.71-15. I also made some changes to octave-forge, which will 
fail due to a missing library if built in mock with 
octave-devel-2.1.71-14 or older, and requested a build upon completion 
of the octave build. I had thought that the build system pulls in 
dependencies from its own unreleased builds if they exist, but that did 
not appear to be the case because the octave-forge build pulled in 
octave-devel-2.1.71-14 and failed. Is this the expected behavior of the 
build system or not?

-Quentin