[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#696377: octave3.2: 35 octave-* packages fail to upgrade from lenny to squeeze: octave3.0: error while loading shared libraries: liblapack.so.3gf: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Wed Dec 26 09:38:26 UTC 2012


* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-12-23 18:09]:
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:08:27AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>
>> Package: octave3.2 
>> Version: 3.2.4-8 
>> Severity: serious 
>> Tags: squeeze 
>> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org 
>> Usertags: piuparts 
>> Control: affects -1 + octave-ad octave-zenity
>>
>> during a test with piuparts I noticed many octave packages failing to 
>> upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
>
> To be honest, I don't quite see the value of checking for upgrades from 
> lenny to squeeze at this point of the release cycle - octave3.0 was 
> removed in 2010. Putting it another way, how many users do we help by 
> fixing this issue now?

I am curious: why is this bug popping out only now?  Why was it not discovered 
during the release cycle of squeeze?

Rafael



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