[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#815597: Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: fixed -1 4.0.1~rc2-1

* Elvis Stansvik <elvstone@gmail.com> [2016-02-22 21:26]:
> Please consider patching the package with following fix from upstream:
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45225
>
> It was a regression in 4.0.0, and without the patch (which will be in 
> 4.0.1), Octave is unusable with HDF5 files with integer data.

Thanks for the heads up.

If the upstream release 4.0.1 is imminent, then I think we will not 
bother releasing a fix for the 4.0.0 Debian package now.  Does anybody 
know when the upstream developers intend to release version 4.0.1?

For people reading this bug report and in a desperate need for the fix, 
please use the version of the octave package in experimental. This can be 
done by APT pinning.  Here is a simple-minded recipe (as root):

   echo "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-experimental.list:deb
   cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-releases <<EOF
Package: *
Pin: release a=<whichever-distribution-you-are-using>
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 500
EOF 
   aptitude update 
   aptitude install octave/experimental liboctave3v5/experimental octave-common/experimental


Rafael