[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#693873: Bug#693873: octave-common: pkg ("list") not compatible with 'warning error Octave:str-to-num'

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Marc Cromme <marc at ange.dk> wrote:
> Package: octave-common
> Version: 3.6.2-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> It appears that the installation of the packages
>
>   octave-java 1.2.8-6   amd64
>   octave-io   1.0.19-1  amd64
>
> together with the promotion of warnings to errors
>
>   warning error Octave:str-to-num
>
> triggers the error, as installation of octave-java makes the read of the octave-io package file
>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/io-1.0.19/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v48+/PKG_ADD
>
> mandatory, which in turn crashes with an error in the
>
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 274, column 3
>
> A short script triggering the undesired behaviour directly is this one:
>
> --- snip ---
> #!/usr/bin/octave -q
> warning error Octave:str-to-num
> pkg ("list");
> --- snip ---
>
> I did expect the code contained in the octave-common packages to support all kind of
> promotion from warnings to errors, as this helps developing clean code.
>
> best regards, and thanks for packaging octave,
>
> Marc Cromme
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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