[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#520841: error: `strsplit' undefined near line 44 column 7: breaks upgrade

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.4~rc5-3
Severity: normal


error: `strsplit' undefined near line 44 column 7
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 44, column 5
error: called from `debian_remove_octave_forge'
error: near line 52 of file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.4/m/startup/octaverc'

dpkg: error processing octave3.0 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of octave3.0-emacsen:
 octave3.0-emacsen depends on octave3.0; however:
  Package octave3.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing octave3.0-emacsen (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of octave3.0-headers:
 octave3.0-headers depends on octave3.0 (= 1:3.0.4~rc5-3); however:
  Package octave3.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing octave3.0-headers (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [l 3.6.0-24             Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas 1.2-2                Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6               2.9-6                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcolamd-3.2.0     1:3.2.0-4            column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls     7.18.2-8.1           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3          3.1.2-3.1            library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.3-5            GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3        4.3.3-5              Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0            4.36-2               linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-openmpi-1.6 1.6.6-4              Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [libla 3.2.0-3              library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5         5.7+20090314-1       shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3            7.8-2                Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5           2003.1-11            calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5        5.2-4                GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6          4.3.3-5              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.2. 1:3.2.0-4            collection of libraries for comput
ii  octave3.0-common    1:3.0.4~rc5-3        architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo             4.13a.dfsg.1-2~exp05 Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.4-6    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-24   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
pn  octave3.0-doc              <none>        (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-emacsen          <none>        (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-headers          <none>        (no description available)
ii  octave3.0-htmldoc          1:3.0.4~rc5-3 HTML documentation on the GNU Octa
ii  octave3.0-info             1:3.0.4~rc5-3 GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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