[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#681064: Bug#681064: octave: does not configure properly

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> I suspect that your system has some file left over from another package
> that may be causing the problem.  If this is true, then what you are
> reporting is a real bug that must be fixed, but it is perhaps not caused
> by the octave package.

I can assure that there is a real bug here, because this happened on
twenty different computers at work, and everything I did was "normal",
i.e. apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade,
dpkg --purge not-needed-package, etc.

I will not change the severity again because I don't want to start a
bug severity war, but I still think this bug deserves a freeze exception
(i.e. it should be RC).

After the analysis by Thomas Weber, do you still need a precise way to
reproduce this?