Recent updates broke octave in backports:
Thanks for packaging the latest octave in backports.
Unfortunately, recent updates have broken everything:
Octave is divided into core and packages, and the latter is very important for me.
Octave recently transitioned from 4.2.0 to 4.4.0 in backports, but the transitioned removed liboctave-dev.
This means that any command such as
pkg install -forge general
fails with:
pkg: please install the Debian package "liboctave-dev" to get the mkoctfile command
And, of course, the stable's liboctave-dev is not compatible with octave.
Nor can I install octave-general from debian stable:
octave-general : Depends: liboctave3v5 but it is not going to be installed (because it conflicts with the octave version.)
Thanks
Dave