Bug#400071: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#400071: octaviz: Examples fail to run

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, den 01.12.2006, 14:05 +0100 schrieb Christian T. Steigies:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:31:11AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 01.12.2006, 10:15 +0100 schrieb Christian T. Steigies:
> > > > vtk 5.0.2-4 migrated into etch.
> > > > 
> > > > Christian, do you still experience this bug?
> > > So I think the answer is yes?
> > 
> > Ah, sorry. The Octaviz package in testing still has the wrong paths. You
> > can take the one from unstable (I just tested this) or wait until
> > Octaviz migrates (another 2 days).
> 
> vtk_rainbow works now, but:
> 
> octave:3> vtk_image_demo
> ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.0.2/IO/vtkPNGReader.cxx, line 43
> vtkPNGReader (0x21fe7e0): Unable to open file
> /usr/share/vtkdata/Data/fullhead15.png
> 
> /usr/share/doc/octaviz/examples/vtk_image_demo.m
> 
> has this line:
> 
> reader.SetFileName("/usr/share/vtkdata/Data/fullhead15.png")
> 
> When I fix the path, or use this patch, that demo works fine like all others
> now do.

Please see the discussion at 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2006-November/001954.html

In short, this problem is not considered RC-critical by us. If the
current version enters etch, we might do a new upload of Octaviz into
unstable. But I'd rather have some non-working (and easy to work-around)
examples in Etch than the current package in testing.


--- /usr/share/doc/octaviz/examples/vtk_image_demo.m    2006-11-22
10:35:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ vtk_image_demo.m    2006-12-01 14:03:38.000000000 +0100
> @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@

You missed some files:
	PolyCut.m
	xyPlot.m


	Thomas