Re: Bug#1116026: transition: octave-10

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2025-09-27 18:03]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2025-09-27 07:11]:
>
> > Le samedi 27 septembre 2025 à 09:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2025-09-23 12:30]:
> > >
> > > > Package: release.debian.org
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-octave@lists.debian.org
> > > > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > > > Usertags: transition
> > > >
> > > > Dear Release Team,
> > > >
> > > > Please schedule a transition for the latest major upstream 
> > > > version of Octave, version 10. All the arch:any Octave addons 
> > > > need to be rebuild.
> > > >
> > > > Octave 10 has already been uploaded to experimental.
> > > >
> > > > A rebuild of all the packages affected by the transition has 
> > > > been performed. Bugs were filed, see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=octave-10;users=debian-octave@lists.debian.org
> > > >
> > > > All issues but one have fixes ready or even applied. For 
> > > > octave-stk, no solution is ready yet, so it will have to 
> > > > temporarily go out of testing.
> > > >
> > > > We stand ready to upload and NMU as needed if other issues arise.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Ben file:
> > > >
> > > > title = "octave-10"; 
> > > > is_affected = .depends ~ "octave-abi-59" | .depends ~ "octave-abi-60"; 
> > > > is_good = .depends ~ "octave-abi-60"; 
> > > > is_bad = .depends ~ "octave-abi-59";
> > >
> > > Thanks for this work, Sébastien.
> > >
> > > It seems that the transition is finished [*], besides the known 
> > > issue with octave-stk.
> > >
> > > Is it time to request the biNMUs?
> >
> > The binNMU have precisely been performed by the Release Team. This 
> > is why the table is all green, except for octave-stk.
> >
> > Besides octave-stk, it seems that there is problem with octave- 
> > statistics autopkgtests, see: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/octave
>
> I think I have diagnosed this issue. The autopkgtest errors arise in 
> the BISTs for var.m and std.m, which should shadow the functions with 
> the same names that are present in the Octave core. This occurs when 
> the unit tests are run at build time. However, this does not happen in 
> the autopkgtest environment. There is probably a bug in 
> dh-octave-autopktest. I will take a look at it.

I hope I have fixed the issue in commit 72e3af46 [*]. I have uploaded 
version 1.7.5-4 of the octave-statistics package to unstable. Let us see 
what the autopkgtest run reveals.

Best,

Rafael

[*] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-octave-team/octave-statistics/-/commit/72e3af465b7aad739582d288081188ff76302911