[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#735557: transition: octave3.8

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 22 janvier 2014 à 22:49 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-01-22 15:27]:
> 
> >> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-01-17 16:02]:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> In sum, until the problem gets fixed in the swig package, the plplot 
> >> package will FTBFS with octave 3.8.0.
> >
> > Can you possibly open a bug against plplot (severity important at this 
> > stage), with a log of the FTBFS and a possibly the explanations above?
> 
> I think that the bug should be filed against the swig package, even 
> though it can be "fixed" by disabling the building of octave-plplot. 
> There is almost nothing else that the maintainer or the upstream 
> authors of plplot can do to fix this.

It is customary to file a FTBFS in this situation, whatever the cause.
Of course, the FTBFS bug can be itself blocked by another bug (against
swig in this case).

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