[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#492033: octave-graceplot: fails using pcolor with Octave 3

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave-graceplot
Version: 1.0.5-1
Severity: normal

octave> pcolor([1 2],[3 4],[5,6;7,8]); ## everything well till now
octave> close
octave> toggle_grace_use 
Use Grace: on
octave> plot([1 2],[3 4]);             ## everything well till now
octave> close                          ## I also close the Grace window manually
octave> pcolor([1 2],[3 4],[5,6;7,8]); ## I get a Grace window with an empty plot
error: get: invalid handle (= 1)
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 43, column 7
error: evaluating if command near line 42, column 3
error: called from `gca' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/plot/gca.m'
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 33, column 22
error: evaluating if command near line 32, column 5
error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 3
error: called from `__next_line_color__' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/plot/__next_line_color__.m'
error: evaluating if command near line 27, column 3
error: called from `newplot' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/plot/newplot.m'
error: called from `pcolor' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/plot/pcolor.m'
octave> close
octave> 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-graceplot depends on:
ii  grace                  1:5.1.21-2+b1     An XY plotting tool
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-21.5        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-1.6           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-2         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.1-2           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-0.5         library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080308-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-2           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave-io              1.0.6-1           input/output data functions for Oc
ii  octave3.0              1:3.0.1-4         GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

octave-graceplot recommends no packages.

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