[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#478677: print('foo.pdf','-dpdf') fails

[Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports@nn7.de>]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.1-2
Severity: normal

to reproduce just do (note print('foo.ps','-dps') works):

octave

plot([1,2,3])
print('foo.pdf','-dpdf')

which gives this output:

gnuplot> set terminal pdf color enhanced;
                      ^
         line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list


gnuplot> plot "-" using ($1):($2) axes x1y1 title "" with lines linestyle 1 ;
              ^
         line 0: use 'set term' to set terminal type first


gnuplot> 1 1 
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 2 2 
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 3 3 
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> e
         ^
         line 0: invalid command

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-21.4        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libatlas3gf-sse2 [libl 3.6.0-21.4        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-1.5           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.1-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.0-3           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.28-3            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-0.4         library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080419-2    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.6-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-9          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0   3.1.0-3           collection of libraries for comput
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-4     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-21.4 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

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