[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501016: octave3.0: sumskipnan undefined?

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.2-3
Severity: normal

$ octave -qf
octave> version
ans = 3.0.2

octave> pkg load nan

octave> help sumskipnan
sumskipnan is the file /usr/share/octave/packages/nan-1.0.6/sumskipnan.m

SUMSKIPNAN adds all non-NaN values. 
[ rest of hel pstring deleted]

octave> exist('sumskipnan')
ans =  3

octave> sumskipnan(1:3)
error: `sumskipnan' undefined near line 7 column 1

So, the nan package is loaded, the help string for sumskipnan is there,
but the sumskipnan function is undefined!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22          Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.2-5          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-9         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.1-9           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.31-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080830-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.6-2.1           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-9lenny1    calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-9           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0   3.1.0-3           collection of libraries for comput
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-4     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.3-1    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-22   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
ii  octave3.0-doc            1:3.0.2-3       PDF documentation on the GNU Octav
ii  octave3.0-emacsen        1:3.0.2-3       Emacs support for the GNU Octave l
ii  octave3.0-headers        1:3.0.2-3       header files for the GNU Octave la
ii  octave3.0-htmldoc        1:3.0.1-6lenny1 HTML documentation on the GNU Octa
ii  octave3.0-info           1:3.0.2-3       GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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