[Pkg-octave-devel] Give-back and dep-wait setting for some octave-* pkgs

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> Some package FTBFS on ia64 with the following error:
> 
> Unpacking octave3.0 (from .../octave3.0_1%3a3.0.5-6_ia64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /x/org/chroots/buildd/sid/var/cache/apt/archives/octave3.0_1%3a3.0.5-6_ia64.deb (--unpack):
>  unable to make backup link of `./usr/bin/octave-3.0.5' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
> 
> This only seems to occur with caballero.  The autobuilds on mundy seem to
> have succeeded, but I did not verify it carefully.  The affected packages
> are: octave-octcdf, octave-octgpr, octave-odepkg, octave-optim, octave-parallel,
> octave-plot, octave-signal, and octave-specfun
>  
> Any idea on how to fix this problem?

Can someone take a look at why caballero has this problem?


Kurt