[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#589303: Bug#589303: Bug#589303: octave3.2: crashes reproducibly

[Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:41:56PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 10:43, Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> > octave:1> pkg global_list /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/octave_packages;
> >
> > octave:2> pkg prefix /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2 /usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2;
> >
> > octave:3> pkg load communications
> > warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave
> >
> [snip]
> > octave:5> rand;sum(rand("state",1));
> > panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> > attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> > save to `octave-core' complete
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> I can't reproduce this on the development sources. I guess we can just
> wait for Jaroslav to make a new Octave release and package that?

Jaroslav has stated that he won't make another release in the 3.2
series. And last time I asked about plans for 3.4, I didn't get any
meaningful answer:
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-May/016038.html

	Thomas