I am planning to upload soon octave2.1 2.1.73-18 as in SVN r1493. The main change is related to the g++-4.1 dependency for octave*-headers, which will be propagated into octave3.0. This is preventing some packages of being autobuilt on arm (e.g. plplot [1]) [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=plplot&arch=arm&ver=5.9.0-2&stamp=1206275374&file=log&as=raw -- Rafael