[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#741679: octave: Octave package can't be configured

wzab wzab at ise.pw.edu.pl
Sat Mar 15 14:12:58 UTC 2014


Package: octave
Version: 3.8.0-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When I try to configure the newest octave, aptitude prints the following
error messages:

Setting up 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 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of octave-audio:
  octave-audio depends on octave (>= 3.8.0); however:
   Package octave is not configured yet.
[...]
(a lot of error messages about othe packages depending on octave)

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless             2:1.7-51
ii  libamd2.3.1                      1:4.2.1-3
ii  libarpack2                       3.1.5-2
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.1-4
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-7
ii  libc6                            2.18-4
ii  libcamd2.3.1                     1:4.2.1-3
ii  libccolamd2.8.0                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcholmod2.1.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcolamd2.8.0                   1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcxsparse3.1.2                 1:4.2.1-3
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.2-4
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.2-4
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6                     2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.8.2-16
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         9.2.2-1
ii  libglpk36                        4.53-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.0-2
ii  libgomp1                         4.8.2-16
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3             1.3.18-1
ii  libgraphicsmagick3               1.3.18-1
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.5.0-2
ii  liboctave2                       3.8.0-5
ii  libqhull6                        2012.1-4
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-1
ii  libqscintilla2-9                 2.7.2-1+b3
ii  libqt4-network                   4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libqtcore4                       4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libqtgui4                        4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libstdc++6                       4.8.2-16
ii  libumfpack5.6.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-1
ii  octave-common                    3.8.0-5
ii  texinfo                          5.2.0.dfsg.1-2

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot-x11     4.6.5-1
ii  libatlas3-base  3.10.1-4
ii  pstoedit        3.62-1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn  octave-doc      <none>
ii  octave-htmldoc  3.8.0-5
ii  octave-info     3.8.0-5

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