Problem with octave-plplot

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

The message below reports a bug involving two packages in sarge that are out
of sync, due to an API-related problem.  This is a RC bug (although no bug
report has been filled) which is fixed in sid.  What should we do?

--
Rafael (maintainer of octave-plplot)


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From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Subject: Re: plplot installation.
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:36:46 +0100
To: Peter Jensen <peter.jensen@virgin.net>
Reply-To: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Cc: Octave_post <help@octave.org>
Organization: Debian GNU/Linux

* Peter Jensen <peter.jensen@virgin.net> [2004-12-27 21:52]:

> I have recently installed Debian sarge on my PC at home. Its great.....
> I managed to install most of my favorite software, including
> version 2.1.60-1 of octave and version 4.0.0-2 of gnuplot,
> using the excellent package manager.
> 
> However I encountered a problem with the installation of plplot.
> The version of plplot I tried to install was 5.3.1-1 i.e the
> version belonging to sarge.
> 
> I got the following error message.
> 
> octave:3> plinit
> error: API version api-v8 found in .oct file function `plplot_octave'
>       does not match the running Octave (API version api-v11)
>       this can lead to incorrect results or other failures
>       you can fix this problem by recompiling this .oct file
> error: failed to install dld function `plplot_octave'
> error: `plplot_octave' undefined near line 1703 column 1
> error: called from `plinit'
> 
> For the sarge release it looks to me like the version of
> plplot is out of sync with octave.

Indeed, it is.  This problem is already fixed in sid (a.k.a. unstable) with
the following versions:

    octave2.1_2.1.64-1
    octave_plplot_5.3.1-2

Let us hope that these packages will enter sarge before release.

-- 
Rafael



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Rafael