[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#831120: octave: FTBFS with GCC 6: array/Range.cc:498:21: error: 'floor' is not a member of 'gnulib'

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> [2016-07-14 09:17]:

> Source: octave
> Version: 4.0.3-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: stretch sid
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160713 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS with GCC 6 on amd64
>
> [snip]

You have probably seen Bug#831120.  In order to prevent the exclusion of 
Octave from stretch, we have three options:

  1) Octave 4.2 is released before the freeze
  2) Octave 4.0 is ported to GCC 6
  3) A 4.1 snapshot package is released to unstable

Option 3 is sub-optimal, but is the only one that does not depend on the 
upstream developers.

Rafael