[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#832415: octave-parallel: Any attempt to use parcellfun leads to unhandled error in subprocesses

[Eric S Fraga]

Package: octave-parallel
Version: 3.1.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Any attempt to use parcellfun leads to errors such as these:

warning: parcellfun: unhandled error in subprocess 1
warning: called from
    parcellfun at line 291 column 9
    [...] traceback on my own code elided
error: '__exit__' undefined near line 311 column 7

Searching the Interweb leads me to a discussion on the GNU bug site
which seems to indicate that the problem is known in the Octave
community and that the problem has been introduced by the Debian
packaging:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39481

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages octave-parallel depends on:
ii  libc6          2.23-1
ii  libgcc1        1:6.1.1-9
ii  libgnutls30    3.4.14-1
ii  liboctave3v5   4.0.3-1
ii  libstdc++6     6.1.1-9
ii  octave         4.0.3-1
ii  octave-struct  1.0.13-1

octave-parallel recommends no packages.

octave-parallel suggests no packages.

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