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

[Elvis Stansvik <elvstone@gmail.com>]

2016-02-23 10:23 GMT+01:00 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?

Ah yes, I realized after I sent this report that 4.0.1 might be just
around the corner. At least they've had several RCs. If that is the
case, feel free to close this issue.

>
> 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):

Thanks a lot for the recipe. At the moment we're using an Octave built
from source to work around it.

Elvis

>
>    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