[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#448839: octave3.0: Error in pkg.m

[LUK ShunTim]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 2.9.15-1
Severity: normal

When octave starts up, the following error with pkg occurs.

<log>
~$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.9.15
***********************************************************************
* WARNING: Although this version of Octave was launched as octave3.0, *
* it is actually version 2.9.15, which is considered by the upstream  *
* authors as a release candidate for the upcoming 3.0 version.  This  *
* version is specific to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.           *
***********************************************************************
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error: structure has no member `archprefix'
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1937, column 11
error: called from `pkg:getarchdir' in file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2017, column 12
error: evaluating for command near line 2011, column 3
error: called from `pkg:load_packages_and_dependencies' in file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
error: called from `pkg:load_packages' in file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
error: evaluating switch command near line 244, column 3
error: called from `pkg' in file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
error: near line 2 of file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/PKG_ADD'
error: source: error sourcing file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/PKG_ADD'
octave:1> 
</log>

Regards,
ST 
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                  2.6.1-6           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.17.0-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.2.2-3         GCC support library
ii  libglpk0               4.23-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20071013-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.3-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-7          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.2-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                4.8.dfsg.1-6      Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  atlas3-base                   3.6.0-20.6 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1    A command-line driven interactive 

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