Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#831120: octave: FTBFS with GCC 6: array/Range.cc:498:21: error: 'floor' is not a member of 'gnulib'

["John W. Eaton" <jwe@octave.org>]

On 07/14/2016 06:03 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> [2016-07-14 09:17]:
>
> > Source: octave
> > Version: 4.0.3-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: stretch sid
> > User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160713 qa-ftbfs
> > Justification: FTBFS with GCC 6 on amd64
> >
> > [snip]
>
> You have probably seen Bug#831120.  In order to prevent the exclusion of
> Octave from stretch, we have three options:
>
>   1) Octave 4.2 is released before the freeze
>   2) Octave 4.0 is ported to GCC 6
>   3) A 4.1 snapshot package is released to unstable
>
> Option 3 is sub-optimal, but is the only one that does not depend on the
> upstream developers.

There is no way that option 2 is going to happen.

We are aiming for option 1.

jwe