[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#676800: octave-java: completely breaks octave

[Sébastien Villemot]

Package: octave-java
Version: 1.2.8-4
Severity: grave
Tags: sid

This version of octave-java completely breaks octave.

For example, if octave-io is also installed, octave miserably fails at launch
time:

octave: lex.ll :2420 : void handle_number():  L'assertion « nread == 1 » a échoué.
panic: Abandon -- stopping myself...
Abandon

Various other kinds of strange breakage happens (e.g. numerical errors). It
looks like a memory corruption problem.

Since downgrading to octave-java 1.2.8-3 solves the issue, the cause of the
problem is clearly the switch from OpenJDK 6 to 7.

This needs to be investigated with the openjdk-7 maintainers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave-java depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.13-33
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.7.0-12
ii  liboctave1              3.6.2-1
ii  libstdc++6              4.7.0-12
ii  octave                  3.6.2-1
ii  openjdk-7-jre-headless  7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-2

octave-java recommends no packages.

octave-java suggests no packages.

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