[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#349139: octave-forge: Installs files at wrong places

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Package: octave-forge
Version: 2005.06.13-8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

[from the pkg-octave-devel mailing list:]

* Peter Plessas <plessas at mur.at> [2006-01-20 23:02]:

> installing o-f(2005.06.13-8) via aptitude on a debian powerpc testing 
> system, and finding the o-f folder right at the root "/" of my 
> filesystem, along with an executable of 'aurecord'.
> 
> Anyone else having seen this?

Yes, unfortunately this happened with all the non-i386 octave-forge
packages built by the Debian autobuilders.  There is a problem with the
octave-config alternative in the build daemons, which I addressed in a
recent post to debian-devel.

I am filling this bug report with severity level set to "grave" until the
bug is fixed.  It is unfortunate that this version entered testing already
before we detected the problem.

-- 
Rafael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages octave-forge depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-11        Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcln3c2                1.1.9-6         Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.0.2-4       GCC support library
ii  libgfortran0             4.0.2-4         Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.3c2a           1.3.3-2+b1      The GiNaC framework (runtime libra
ii  libgmp3c2                4.1.4-11        Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgsl0                  1.6-2           GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -- li
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.4-0c2 1.6.4-4         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-1           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3                 5.0-1.1         Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-5      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5                2003.1-1        Calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5             5.1-5           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++6               4.0.2-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  octave2.1                1:2.1.72-8      GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  xlibs                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-8       compression library - runtime

octave-forge recommends no packages.

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