[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#524745: Postinst seems to run forever on mipsel

[Martin Zobel-Helas]

Hi, 

On Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 12:07:58 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am contacting you guys who gave me feedback on Bug#524745.  I asked
> debian-admin to install octave3.0 on the sid chroot of some architectures
> where the bug happened.  They did it on merulo (ia64) and pescetti
> (powerpc).  
> 
> I can perfcetly launch octave on those machines and successfully run the
> offending command in postinst:
> 
>     octave-3.0.5 --silent --no-history --no-init-file --eval "pkg ('rebuild');"
> 
> (although not as root).
> 
> I am simply lost here and have no idea on how I can debug this random
> bug.

As soon as i have that bug again on the buildd, i will inform you, so
wen can debug together.

Greetings
Martin

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