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

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/14/2016 06:03 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * 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.

There is no way that option 2 is going to happen.

We are aiming for option 1.

jwe