Octave: move Travis build over to trusty

- trusty has Octave version 3.8
- ppa:kwwette/octaves has Octave version 4.0
- Update Doc/Manual/Octave.html

.travis.yml

@@ -77,13 +77,14 @@ matrix:
       dist: trusty
     - compiler: gcc
       os: linux
-      env: SWIGLANG=octave SWIGJOBS=-j2 # 3.2
+      env: SWIGLANG=octave SWIGJOBS=-j2 # 3.8
-    - compiler: gcc
+      sudo: required
-      os: linux
+      dist: trusty
-      env: SWIGLANG=octave SWIGJOBS=-j2 VER=3.8
     - compiler: gcc
       os: linux
       env: SWIGLANG=octave SWIGJOBS=-j2 VER=4.0
+      sudo: required
+      dist: trusty
     - compiler: gcc
       os: linux
       env: SWIGLANG=perl5

Doc/Manual/Octave.html

@@ -64,8 +64,15 @@ Also, there are a dozen or so examples in the Examples/octave directory, and hun
 
 
 <p>
-As of SWIG 3.0.7, the Octave module is regularly tested with Octave versions 3.2.4, 3.8.1, and 4.0.0.
+SWIG is regularly tested against the following versions of Octave: 3.8, 4.0.
-Use of older Octave versions is not recommended, as these versions are no longer tested with SWIG.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Every effort is made to maintain backward compatibility with older versions of Octave.
+This cannot be guaranteed however, as in recent times new Octave releases have required nontrivial updates to SWIG, which may break backward compatibility for older Octave versions against which SWIG is not regularly tested.
+</p>
+
+<p>
 The SWIG runtime exports the function <tt>swig_octave_prereq()</tt> for checking the version of Octave.
 </p>
 

Tools/travis-linux-install.sh

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ case "$SWIGLANG" in
 		;;
 	"octave")
 		if [[ -z "$VER" ]]; then
-			sudo apt-get -qq install octave3.2 octave3.2-headers
+			sudo apt-get -qq install liboctave-dev
 		else
 			sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kwwette/octaves
 			sudo apt-get -qq update