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

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:18:34PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 15 December 2010 16:17, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:55:58AM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Did anything change in Ginac? The package was built in February and all
> > tests passed.
> 
> Are you sure? 

Yes: 
https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=octave-symbolic


> (The mark_as_command warning is from another package I have installed,
> but I keep forgetting which one.) So something fishy is happening,
> "!!!!! test failed" yet "PASSES 2 out of 2 tests". Can you reproduce
> this? Perhaps this was happening in February so the tests were failing
> but being reported as passing?

No, see the build logs available from above.

	Thomas