[MacPorts] #56624: Octave reports version as a non-number, e.g. "4.x.x"

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#56624: Octave reports version as a non-number, e.g. "4.x.x"
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  Reporter:  amake   |      Owner:  MarcusCalhoun-Lopez
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports   |    Version:
Resolution:          |   Keywords:
      Port:  octave  |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [ticket:56624 amake]:
 > Is the current behavior really necessary or desired?

 It appears to have been deliberately introduced in
 [aec14792b8457e3c77b5c90a3c402a88ba9eb41b/macports-ports], though it was
 grouped together with all the other changes needed to update octave to
 4.4.0 and its purpose wasn't separately explained.

 It looks like previously octave would install its files into directories
 whose names contained the full octave version number, such as "4.2.2".
 This could have been problematic for other ports that depended on
 octave—they might have needed to be rebuilt every time the octave port was
 updated, even for a minor version. Changing the version to "4.x.x" may
 have been an attempt by Marcus to avoid that necessity.

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