[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#607071: Bug #607071 reproducible on testing

[Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek@etla.org>]

Reproduced here:

Package: octave-symbolic
Priority: optional
Section: math
Installed-Size: 988
Maintainer: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: octave-symbolic (1.0.9-1)
Version: 1.0.9-1+b1

vivek@noise:~$ octave
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octave:1> x = sym("x");
octave:2> x+2
error: T& Array<T>::checkelem (0, -1, 2): range error
octave:2> Sin(x)
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
error: octave_base_value::save_binary(): wrong type argument `ex'
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault