[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#710564: octave-secs2d: makes Octave do not work for simple tasks

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

Package: octave-secs2d
Version: 0.0.8-4
Severity: important

Here is what I observe:

$ echo "disp(version); a=magic(3); save -ascii a"| octave -qf
3.6.4

$ echo "disp(version); a=magic(3); pkg load secs2d; save -ascii a"| octave -qf
3.6.4
error: octave_base_value::matrix_value(): wrong type argument 'cell'
warning: save: unable to save dirlist in ASCII format

The error makes no sense, it appears like memory corruption or something
like that which is triggered by loading secs2d.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave-secs2d depends on:
ii  libc6       2.17-3
ii  libgcc1     1:4.8.0-7
ii  liboctave1  3.6.4-2
ii  libstdc++6  4.8.0-7
ii  octave      3.6.4-2

octave-secs2d recommends no packages.

octave-secs2d suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information