[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#373965: error: `LOADPATH' undefined

[Kim Hansen]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.6-1
Severity: normal

The new octave package has a problem with its path, my octave programs fails 
with 2.9.6-1 and works with 2.9.5-7.

kim at kanon:~$ octave
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error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 10 column 51
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 10, column 10
error: near line 10 of file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/m/startup/octaverc'
octave:1>
kim at kanon:~$


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.so.3 3.6.0-20.2   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                       3.1.1-1      library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-5    GCC support library
ii  libgfortran0                4.0.3-3      Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0                    4.9-1        linear programming kit (shared lib
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [lib 1.6.5-2      Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-2        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3                    6.4-2        Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libreadline5                5.1-7        GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libufsparse                 1.2-6        collection of libraries for comput
ii  texinfo                     4.8.dfsg.1-1 Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-11   compression library - runtime

octave2.9 recommends no packages.

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