On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:46:23PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > 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? Please open an RC bug report, tagged sarge, against one (or both) of the packages to document this issue. Have steps been taken to ensure this kind of API-skew doesn't affect testing in the future, or do you need help from the release team to craft a solution to that problem? The problems with gcc-3.4 blocking numerous packages have been sorted out, thanks to Anthony Towns, so the only remaining issue holding plplot and octave2.1 out of testing is that the powerpc binaries for octave2.1 have gone missing. I've cc:ed the powerpc buildd maintainer to apprise him of this issue. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > ----- Forwarded message from Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> ----- > > 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.
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