I just committed some changes to the octave3.0 package for making it compile with SuiteSparse 3.2.0. I uploaded (in the behalf of the pkg-scicomp group) suitesparse 1:3.2.0-1 to experimental. It is now waiting at the NEW queue for ftp-admin approval. For those wishing to try out the package, it can be found at my apt-getable repository: http://people.debian.org/~rafael/suitesparse/ -- Rafael