[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#744244: octave: missing function "dispatch" causes configure to fail
Package: octave
Version: 3.8.1-1+b1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
while upgrading (apt-get upgrade) octave-dataframe (0.9.1-1 => 1.0.0-1)
the following error happened:
>> ...
>> Processing triggers for octave (3.8.1-1+b1) ...
>> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/strings-1.1.0/strjoin.m shadows a core library function
>> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows a core library function
>> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows a built-in function
>> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows a core library function
>> warning: function /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct shadows a built-in function
>> warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
>> error: 'dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
>> error: called from:
>> error: /usr/share/octave/packages/fixed-0.7.10/PKG_ADD at line 2, column 1
>> error: addpath: all arguments must be character strings
>> .... line repeated 27 times
>> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/load_packages_and_dependencies.m at line 47, column 5
>> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/load_packages.m at line 60, column 3
>> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 412, column 7
>> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/startup/octaverc at line 22, column 1
>> dpkg: error processing package octave (--unpack):
>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> octave
>> ...
in the changelog for liboctave2 one finds:
>> 2014-03-01 Rik <rik@octave.org>
>>
>> doc: Remove "Legacy Dispatch" from Function Precedence section.
>>
>> * func.txi: Remove "Legacy Dispatch" from Function Precedence section.
>> The dispatch function was removed and doesn't exist in 3.8.
>> .....
so it seems that "dispatch" was removed deliberately, however the
install/upgrade process depends on it.
to workaround this and to finally finish the upgrade I searched
for "dispatch.oct" in an older deb-package and copied it into:
/usr/lib/octave/3.2.4/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dispatch.oct
then I tried
>> aptitude reinstall octave
>> The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
>> octave
>> Preparing to unpack .../octave_3.8.1-1+b1_amd64.deb ...
>> Unpacking octave (3.8.1-1+b1) over (3.8.1-1+b1) ...
>> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ...
>> Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46) ...
>> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
>> Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54) ...
>> Setting up octave (3.8.1-1+b1) ...
>> ...
the install finished successfully, however other error messages appear whenever I try
to start octave, since I introduced library inconsistencies by using an ancient version
of "dispatch.oct"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii default-jre-headless 2:1.7-51
ii libamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3
ii libarpack2 3.1.5-2
ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.10.1-4
ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2.20110419-7
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libcamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3
ii libccolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcholmod2.1.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcxsparse3.1.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.3-7
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.3-7
ii libfltk-gl1.3 1.3.2-4
ii libfltk1.3 1.3.2-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-5
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.1.0-5
ii libglpk36 4.54-1
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2
ii libgomp1 4.8.2-16
ii libgraphicsmagick++3 1.3.18-1
ii libgraphicsmagick3 1.3.18-1
ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.5.0-2
ii liboctave2 3.8.1-1+b1
ii libopenblas-base [libblas.so.3] 0.2.8-6
ii libqhull6 2012.1-4
ii libqrupdate1 1.1.2-1
ii libqscintilla2-11 2.8.1-1
ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16
ii libumfpack5.6.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii octave-common 3.8.1-1
ii texinfo 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.5-1
ii libatlas3-base 3.10.1-4
ii libopenblas-base 0.2.8-6
ii pstoedit 3.62-1
Versions of packages octave suggests:
ii octave-doc 3.8.1-1
ii octave-htmldoc 3.8.1-1
ii octave-info 3.8.1-1
ii octave3.2-doc [octave-doc] 3.2.4-12
ii octave3.2-htmldoc [octave-htmldoc] 3.2.4-12
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