Control: reassign -1 octave 3.8.0-5 Control: retitle -1 octave: unable to handle package dependencies with a hyphen Control: tags -1 + upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41087 On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 19:29:10 -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > It's impossible to configure octave 3.8.0 with octave-vrml installed: > > Processing triggers for octave (3.8.0-5) ... > error: strcmp: nonconformant cell arrays > error: evaluating argument list element number 1 > error: called from: > error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/fix_depends.m at line 46, column 9 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_description.m at line 74, column 18 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/rebuild.m at line 50, column 12 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 495, column 25 > dpkg: error processing package octave (--unpack): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > octave > > The problem appears to be that most of the Depends entries in > octave-vrml's DESCRIPTION file lack version requirements; could you > please take a look, and either fix octave to permit such entries or > octave-vrml not to supply them? Confirmed, but the problem is actually that octave-vrml depends on something that has a hyphen in its name (linear-algebra). This bug was identified and fixed upstream, patch linked in the upstream bug report, and the fix will be in the 3.8.1 upstream bug-fix release. I've confirmed that applying that patch allows octave-vrml to be installed. -- mike
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