[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#623554: octave3.2: plotyy fails with error at second call

[klaus_snd at web.de]

Package: octave3.2
Version: 3.2.4-8
Severity: normal

If executing the script below (the contents of the testplot function 
is copied from the manual), the first call of testplot succeeds, but
the second one fails with an error:
error: addproperty: a `__plotyy_axes__' property already
exists in the graphics object
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/plot/plotyy.m at line 193, column 1
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/plot/plotyy.m at line 111, column 1
error:   testplot at line 7, column 5
error:   /tmp/test.m at line 15, column 1

test.m:
1;

function testplot()
 % copied from manual
 x = 0:0.1:2*pi;
 y1 = sin (x);
 y2 = exp (x - 1);
 ax = plotyy (x, y1, x - 1, y2, @plot, @semilogy);
 xlabel ("X");
 ylabel (ax(1), "Axis 1");
 ylabel (ax(2), "Axis 2");
endfunction

testplot
testplot


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave3.2 depends on:
ii  libamd2.2.0         1:3.4.0-2            approximate minimum degree orderin
ii  libarpack2          2.1+parpack96.dfsg-3 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libblas3gf [libblas 1.2-8                Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.5-6              high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6               2.11.2-10            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcamd2.2.0        1:3.4.0-2            symmetric approximate minimum degr
ii  libccolamd2.7.1     1:3.4.0-2            constrained column approximate lib
ii  libcholmod1.7.1     1:3.4.0-2            sparse Cholesky factorization libr
ii  libcolamd2.7.1      1:3.4.0-2            column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls     7.21.0-1             Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libcxsparse2.2.3    1:3.4.0-2            concise sparse matrix library (com
ii  libfftw3-3          3.2.2-1              library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1          1.1.10-2+b1          Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.2-2.1            FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libftgl2            2.1.3~rc5-3          library to render text in OpenGL u
ii  libgcc1             1:4.4.5-8            GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3        4.4.5-8              Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.7.1-4              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglpk0            4.43-1               linear programming kit with intege
ii  libglu1-mesa [libgl 7.7.1-4              The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgomp1            4.4.5-8              GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libgraphicsmagick++ 1.3.12-1+b1          format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagick3  1.3.12-1+b1          format-independent image processin
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.8. 1.8.4-patch1-2       Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6             2:1.0.6-2            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper1          1.900.1-7+b1         The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62           6b1-1                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblapack3gf [libla 3.2.1-8              library of linear algebra routines
ii  liblcms1            1.18.dfsg-1.2+b3     Color management library
ii  libltdl7            2.2.6b-2             A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libncurses5         5.7+20100313-5       shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3            8.12-3               Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.44-1             PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5           2009.1-1             calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libqrupdate1        1.0.1-1              Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de
ii  libreadline6        6.1-3                GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6              2:1.1.1-1            X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6          4.4.5-8              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4            3.9.4-5+squeeze1     Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libumfpack5.4.0     1:3.4.0-2            sparse LU factorization library
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-6.1+b1       Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6            2:1.3.3-4            X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6            2:1.1.2-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-2         GNOME XML library
ii  octave3.2-common    3.2.4-8              architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo             4.13a.dfsg.1-6       Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.2 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.4.0-1.1  A command-line driven interactive 
pn  libatlas3gf-base              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages octave3.2 suggests:
pn  octave3.2-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-emacsen             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-headers             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.2-htmldoc             3.2.4-8    HTML documentation on the GNU Octa
pn  octave3.2-info                <none>     (no description available)

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