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

Sébastien Villemot sebastien.villemot at ens.fr
Wed Jul 11 14:27:13 UTC 2012


severity 681064 serious
tags 681064 = confirmed
thanks

Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> writes:

> 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).

This is also my opinion. I am also convinced that the problem is
real. I'm therefor setting the severity back to serious.

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

No, we have isolated the cause and we will implement the solution
shortly.

Thanks for your feedback,

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