[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501016: Bug#501016: octave3.0: sumskipnan undefined?

[Francesco Potorti` <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>]

>On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:19:50PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>> Package: octave3.0
>> Version: 1:3.0.2-3
>> Severity: normal
>
>Eh, were did you get this version with your apt settings below?

I downloaded it from the Debian repository.

>> So, the nan package is loaded, the help string for sumskipnan is there,
>> but the sumskipnan function is undefined!
>
>I suppose it loads an .oct file at some point and can't find it. I've
>removed a Debian-specific patch for this known problem (#477556),
>because I thought it was fixed in the 3.0.2 release, which it wasn't. 
>
>It's fixed in the 3.0.3 release, though. 
>
>Then again, it might just be that the nan package and the octave package
>have incompatible ABI interfaces (there's a reason 3.0.2 is in
>experimental!) due to me passing a --host flag to configure, which means
>we need a recompile.
>
>This is all a bit terse, but it boils down to: the current octave3.0
>package in experimental is just that: experimental.

Right!  I knew that, I wanted to experiment, and I let you know the
outcome :)