[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#744244: octave: missing function "dispatch" causes configure to fail

[Mike Miller]

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 22:19:35 +0200, Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Mike Miller wrote:
>> That's great that it's solved for you. It might still be useful to us
>> to know how octave-fixed was installed on your system. Did you have a
>> Debian package installed that you now apt-get removed, or had you
>> locally installed it with the pkg command in Octave? If it was a deb
>> package, what was its version?
>
> octave-fixed appeared on my machine the first time 2012-05-16 21:22:41
> in version: 0.7.10-5.
> since then the version was never upgraded. the logs indicate,
> that it was installed from a debian-package (entry in dpkg.log)

I hadn't noticed yet at the time I was discussing this with you, but
this had already been fixed in git [1] and is not yet released. The
next update to the Octave packages will correctly force the
octave-fixed package to be uninstalled, the current 3.8.1-1 version
does not.

Thanks for reporting this.

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=commitdiff;h=93f27c6

-- 
mike