Re: Build failures with the Octave 4.4 transition

[Julien Bect <julien.bect@centralesupelec.fr>]

Le 16/06/2018 à 12:22, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-06-11 08:22]:

The Octave 4.4 transition is more complex than anticipated. Many packages fail to build, see:

https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?team%2Bpkg-octave-team%40tracker.debian.org#todo https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-octave.html

These are the problematic cases left:

- octave-interval: I hope that Oliver Heimlich is taking care of it.

- octave-stk: Idem for Julien Bect.

Hi Rafael,

a) Two failing tests ("structure has no member 'xmin'") have been addressed : https://sourceforge.net/p/kriging/tickets/89.

A bugfix release is waiting on OF's tracker : https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/340/.

If it is really urgent, the relevant patch is here : https://sourceforge.net/p/kriging/hg/ci/81035abf760b69d06648b84f5b0a7de1b655ab74/.


b) The others ("__go_axes__: unable to create graphics handle") occur for unit tests that are supposed to produce graphics.

I don't know what to do about them, but Sebastien said he would look into it.


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Julien