[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#691311: Bug#691311: error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found

[Sébastien Villemot]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 + confirmed

sacrifial-spam-address at horizon.com writes:

> Package: octave
> Version: 3.6.3-2
> Architecture: i386
>
> Upgrading from 3.6.2-5 is failing:
>
> # dpkg --configure octave
> Setting up octave (3.6.3-2) ...
> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
>
> dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  octave
>
> This error seems to affect a lot:
>
> # octave
> GNU Octave, version 3.6.2

[...]

> octave:1> help
> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
> octave:1> 

I confirm this. The solution is to upgrade your liboctave1 package to
version 3.6.3-2.

It appears that octave 3.6.2 does not work with liboctave1 3.6.3, and
conversely octave 3.6.3 does not work with liboctave1 3.6.2.

At the very least we need to tighten dependencies, but we may also be
forced to do a SONAME bump (because backward compatibility of liboctave
seems broken).

We need to clarify this with upstream.

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