[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#743910: emacs24: Inferior Octave hangs with octave_3.8.1

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Package: emacs24
Version: 24.3+1-2+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Running an inferior Octave process in emacs24 is not working with the 
version of Octave currently in unstable (3.8.1).  The following hangs 
for me:

   emacs24 --no-init-file --eval '(run-octave)'

With the most recent version of octave.el, taken from the upstream bzr 
repository, it works for me:

   wget http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/emacs-24/download/head:/octavemod.el-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1028/octave.el
   emacs24 --no-init-file --load ./octave.el --eval '(run-octave)'

Please, consider updating the octave.el file in the emacs24 package.

Notice that the new upstream file octave.el replaces both 
octave-inf.el and octave-mod.el in version 24.3 of emacs24, currently 
in unstable.

Cheers,

Rafael Laboissiere

-- System Information: 
Debian Release: jessie/sid 
 APT prefers testing 
 APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'stable'), (500, 'experimental') 
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-rc7-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages emacs24 depends on: 
ii  emacs24-bin-common   24.3+1-2+b1 
ii  gconf-service        3.2.6-2 
ii  libasound2           1.0.27.2-3 
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.10.0-2 
ii  libc6                2.18-4 
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.12.16-2 
ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-2 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.0-3 
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-2 
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-1 
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.6-2 
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.30.6-1 
ii  libgif4              4.1.6-11 
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.38.2-5 
ii  libgnutls26          2.12.23-13 
ii  libgomp1             4.8.2-16 
ii  libgpm2              1.20.4-6.1 
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.10.7-1 
ii  libice6              2:1.0.8-2 
ii  libjpeg8             8d-2 
ii  libm17n-0            1.6.4-2 
ii  libmagickcore5       8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-1 
ii  libmagickwand5       8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-1 
ii  libotf0              0.9.13-1 
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.3-1 
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.3-1 
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.50-1 
ii  librsvg2-2           2.40.2-1 
ii  libselinux1          2.2.2-1 
ii  libsm6               2:1.2.1-2 
ii  libtiff5             4.0.3-8 
ii  libtinfo5            5.9+20140118-1 
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-1 
ii  libxft2              2.3.1-2 
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-3 
ii  libxpm4              1:3.5.10-1 
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1 
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

emacs24 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages emacs24 suggests: 
pn  emacs24-common-non-dfsg  <none>

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