[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516772: octave3.1: does not see installed packages

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave3.1
Version: 3.1.52-4
Severity: normal

$ mv ~/.octaverc /tmp

$ octave -qf
octave:1> pkg load statistics
octave:2> quit

$ octave -q
octave:1> pkg load statistics
error: package statistics is not installed
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.1.52/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 2008, column 4
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.1.52/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 303, column 7
octave:1> quit

That is, if I tell Octave to ignore the system-wide octaverc file,
packages are normally loaded, else all packages are seen are not
installed.

Tha reason is that the distributed /etc/octave3.1.conf file sets the
pkg list to be /usr/share/octave/packages/3.1/octave_packages, which is
empty.  The real list, built by previous versions of Octave, is at
/usr/share/octave/octave_packages, and that's the place where the pkg
command goes when Octave is called with -qf.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-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 octave3.1 depends on:
ii  libarpack2          2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libatlas3gf-base [l 3.6.0-22             Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas 1.2-2                Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.5-1              high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6               2.7-18               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls     7.18.2-8             Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3          3.1.2-3.1            library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1          1.1.9-6              Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.7-2              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libftgl2            2.1.3~rc5-2          library to render text in OpenGL u
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.3-3            GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3        4.3.3-3              Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-7              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglpk0            4.35-1               linear programming kit with intege
ii  libglu1-mesa [libgl 7.0.3-7              The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgraphicsmagick++ 1.1.11-3.2           format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagick1  1.1.11-3.2           format-independent image processin
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6. 1.6.6-4              Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6             2:1.0.4-1            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper1          1.900.1-5.1          The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62           6b-14                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblapack3gf [libla 3.1.1-6              library of linear algebra routines
ii  liblcms1            1.17.dfsg-1          Color management library
ii  libncurses5         5.7+20081213-1       shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3            7.8-2                Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.27-2             PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5           2003.1-11            calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5        5.2-3.1              GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6              2:1.0.3-2            X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6          4.3.3-3              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.2. 1:3.2.0-1            collection of libraries for comput
ii  libtiff4            3.8.2-11             Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-6            Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.5-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5        GNOME XML library
ii  octave3.1-common    3.1.52-4             architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo             4.11.dfsg.1-4        Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.1 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.4-4    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-22   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.1 suggests:
pn  octave3.1-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.1-emacsen             3.1.52-4   Emacs support for the GNU Octave l
ii  octave3.1-headers             3.1.52-4   header files for the GNU Octave la
pn  octave3.1-htmldoc             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.1-info                3.1.52-4   GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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