[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#740984: octave-vrml: unversioned Depends entries break Octave 3.8.0

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Package: octave-vrml
Version: 1.0.13-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable)

It's impossible to configure octave 3.8.0 with octave-vrml installed:

Processing triggers for octave (3.8.0-5) ...
error: strcmp: nonconformant cell arrays
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/fix_depends.m at line 46, column 9
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_description.m at line 74, column 18
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/rebuild.m at line 50, column 12
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 495, column 25
dpkg: error processing package octave (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave

The problem appears to be that most of the Depends entries in
octave-vrml's DESCRIPTION file lack version requirements; could you
please take a look, and either fix octave to permit such entries or
octave-vrml not to supply them?

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-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

Versions of packages octave-vrml depends on:
ih  octave                 3.8.0-5
ii  octave-linear-algebra  2.2.0-1+b1
ii  octave-miscellaneous   1.2.0-2+b1
ii  octave-statistics      1.2.3-1
ii  octave-struct          1.0.10-1+b1
ii  whitedune              0.30.10-1.2

octave-vrml recommends no packages.

octave-vrml suggests no packages.

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