* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2020-04-30 10:13]:
* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2020-04-30 09:53]:Thanks for packaging octave-parallel 4.0.0.Note however that the upload failed to build on all architectures. Apparently Octave is trying to create ~/.octave, but there is no $HOME in buildd chroots.Thanks for the heads up, Sébastien. I will look soon at the problem.
There is another, more serious problem. The parallel Octave package relies on a binary program octave-pserver, which launches an instance of Octave, in which "pkg load parallel" is executed.
$ grep "pkg load" -n src/octave-pserver.cc
642: eval_arg << "pkg load parallel; __octave_server__ ("
This means that, at build time, it is impossible to run the unit
tests, because they need the package itself installed to succeed.
What should we do? Prevent the tests to be run? Rafael