[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#453126: octplot: doesn't work at all

[Wesley J. Landaker]

Subject: octplot: doesn't work at all
Package: octplot
Version: 0.4.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

octplot doesn't work at all.

  1) It doesn't automatically get into octave's path, so you have to use 
addpath.

  2) Doing that doesn't help, because it doesn't work with octave2.9, even 
though
     that's what version the package depends on.

Basically, it's absolutely broken currently, which is a shame.

e.g.:

octave:1> addpath("/usr/share/octave/site/api-v26/m/")
octave:2> octplot_enable
error: Octplot was compiled for a different version of Octave
error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 3
error: evaluating if command near line 28, column 1
error: near line 54 of file 
`/usr/share/octave/site/api-v26/m//octplot_enable.m'
octave:2>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (45, 'unstable'), 
(40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.9 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octplot depends on:
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra 
routines
ii  libc6                  2.6.1-1+b1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3 [fftw3]     3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast 
Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1             1.1.7-6           Fast Light Toolkit shared 
librarie
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
lib
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 
77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.2.2-3         GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.2-2           A free implementation of the 
OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.2-2           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20071013-1    Shared libraries for terminal 
hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history 
libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.2-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-2          FreeType-based font drawing 
librar
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.2-1         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  octave2.9              1:2.9.17-1        GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 
3
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octplot recommends:
ii  gs-esp [postscript-view 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1  The Ghostscript PostScript 
interpr
ii  gs-gpl [postscript-view 8.56.dfsg.1-1.1  The GPL Ghostscript PostScript 
int
ii  gv [postscript-viewer]  1:3.6.3dfsg-5    PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  kghostview [postscript- 4:3.5.7-4+lenny1 PostScript viewer for KDE

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