[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#607071: octave-symbolic: Segfaults, doesn't work at all

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Package: octave-symbolic
Version: 1.0.9-1+b1
Severity: grave

octave-symbolic is largely unusable. Calling any of its functions
other than "sym" results in C++ exceptions like this one:

     error: T& Array<T>::checkelem (2, -1, 2): range error

and eventually the package segfaults Octave.

This report is mostly a reminder to myself to either fix the package,
or to the release managers to remove this package from squeeze if I
don't manage to fix it before then.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-symbolic depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libla 3.8.3-27         Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so. 1.2-8            Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcln6                 1.3.1-2          Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libfftw3-3              3.2.2-1          library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-6        GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3            4.4.5-6          Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.5             1.5.8-1          The GiNaC symbolic framework (runt
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 [l 1.8.4-patch1-2   Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack 3.2.1-8          library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-4   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6            6.1-3            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-6          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave3.2               3.2.4-8          GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

octave-symbolic recommends no packages.

octave-symbolic suggests no packages.

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