[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#296991: octave2.1: Octave plot depends on grace

[ShunTim LUK]

Package: octave2.1
Version: 2.1.66-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The current octave "plot" appears to depend on grace as the default plotting
bbackend and seg faults if grace is not found.

Here's a trace.
<quote>
octave:1> t=0:pi/100:2*pi;
octave:2> x=sin(t);
octave:3> plot(t,x);
grplot: Cannot start xmgrace

grplot:No grace subprocess
Segmentation fault
</quote>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave2.1 depends on:
ii  atlas3-3dnow [liblapack. 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-11        Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-5 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libg2c0                  1:3.3.5-8       Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-9       GCC support library
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 [ 1.6.2-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5              5.4-4           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5             5.0-10          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-8       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-6           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                  4.7-2.2         Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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