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[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#572649: marked as done (octave3.2: break alternatives configuration)

Your message dated Fri, 28 May 2010 21:39:22 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #572649,
regarding octave3.2: break alternatives configuration
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Package: octave3.2
Version: 3.2.4-3
Severity: normal

octave3.2 does not respect the alternatives setting (the symlinks for
/usr/bin/octave, set with update-alternatives).

There are two aspects to the bug.

1) Firstly, the default alternatives setting is "auto". In principle
this is fine, except that it's automatically going to octave3.0
instead of octave3.2. I don't know if this is a bug or not but it's
certainly annoying.

2) More significantly, octave3.2 simply does not respect the
alternatives configuration made manually via  "update-alternatives --config octave".
Because of the auto config bug described above, I need to use manual
configuration to switch the alternatives configuration from "auto (=octave3.0)" 
to octave3.2 explicitly.  But whenever octave3.2 is upgraded (the most
recent is today's new version 3.2.4-3), the alternatives configuration
is reset back to "auto" (and therefore back to octave3.0).

It's truly distressing to find your scripts all of a sudden fail to
work for no reason at all. All because your default version of octave
was silently downgraded.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave3.2 depends on:
ii  libamd2.2.0      1:3.4.0-1               approximate minimum degree orderin
ii  libarpack2       2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-24                Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libb 1.2-4                   Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.5-4                 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6            2.10.2-6                Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcamd2.2.0     1:3.4.0-1               symmetric approximate minimum degr
ii  libccolamd2.7.1  1:3.4.0-1               constrained column approximate lib
ii  libcholmod1.7.1  1:3.4.0-1               sparse Cholesky factorization libr
ii  libcolamd2.7.1   1:3.4.0-1               column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.19.7-1                Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libcxsparse2.2.3 1:3.4.0-1               concise sparse matrix library (com
ii  libfftw3-3       3.2.2-1                 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1       1.1.10-2                Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii  libfreetype6     2.3.11-1                FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libftgl2         2.1.3~rc5-3             library to render text in OpenGL u
ii  libgcc1          1:4.4.3-3               GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3     4.4.3-3                 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx  7.7-4                   A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglpk0         4.43-1                  linear programming kit with intege
ii  libglu1-mesa [li 7.7-4                   The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgomp1         4.4.3-3                 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libgraphicsmagic 1.3.11-1                format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagic 1.3.11-1                format-independent image processin
ii  libhdf5-serial-1 1.8.4-5                 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6          2:1.0.6-1               X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper1       1.900.1-7               The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62        6b-16.1                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblapack3gf [li 3.2.1-2                 library of linear algebra routines
ii  liblcms1         1.18.dfsg-1.2+b1        Color management library
ii  libltdl7         2.2.6b-2                A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libncurses5      5.7+20090803-2          shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3         7.8-3                   Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.43-1                PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5        2009.1-1                calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libqrupdate1     1.0.1-1                 Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de
ii  libreadline6     6.1-1                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6           2:1.1.1-1               X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6       4.4.3-3                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4         3.9.2-3+b1              Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libumfpack5.4.0  1:3.4.0-1               sparse LU factorization library
ii  libwmf0.2-7      0.2.8.4-6.1             Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6         2:1.3.3-1               X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6         2:1.1.1-2               X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2          2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1         GNOME XML library
ii  octave3.2-common 3.2.4-3                 architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo          4.13a.dfsg.1-5          Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.2 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.6-1    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-24   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.2 suggests:
pn  octave3.2-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.2-emacsen             3.2.4-3    Emacs support for the GNU Octave l
pn  octave3.2-headers             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-htmldoc             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.2-info                3.2.4-3    GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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Hi, 

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:23:47AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:53 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > 
> > This is very likely a bug, although I currently don't see where it comes
> > from. As I want to get rid of octave3.0 for Squeeze, what are your
> > reasons for having it installed?
> > 
> 
> 
> Dependencies: octave-odebvp.
> 
> (there's also octave-pfstools,pfstools but I don't have that installed.
> octavede too, and fsl, xmds suggests)

octave3.0 has been removed from unstable and testing, so I'm closing
this bug report. I intend to do some major changes to octave once the
3.4 series comes out, so it's unlikely this issue will crop up again (at
least not in the same sense).

	Thomas

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