[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#513576: octave-symbolic does not uninstall

[Steve Cotton]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software (the package system)

Or Package: octave-symbolic
   Version: 1.0.6-2

Not sure if the bug's in octave-symbolic or octave3.0, please
reassign if this is wrong.

octave-symbolic fails to either remove or purge, and is stuck in
the half-inst state (it was fully installed before).  None of the
other packages that provide
  /usr/share/octave/packages
are installed.

octave-symbolic's postrm is trying to run this:
  octave3.0 --silent --no-history --no-init-file --eval "pkg ('rebuild');"

(Reading database ... 331009 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing octave-symbolic ...
error: couldn't read directory /usr/share/octave/packages: No such file or directory
error: evaluating if command near line 424, column 5
error: evaluating if command near line 422, column 3
error: called from `pkg:rebuild' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/pkg/pkg.m'
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 371, column 18
error: evaluating if command near line 370, column 7
error: evaluating switch command near line 269, column 3
error: called from `pkg' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/pkg/pkg.m'

dpkg: error processing octave-symbolic (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave-symbolic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.

Repeatedly trying to uninstall it doesn't help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.2-8          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-3         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.3-3           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.29-2            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-6           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090124-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.8-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-11         calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3.1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.3-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0   1:3.1.0-3.1       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                       4.2.4-4    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            1:3.0.1-6lenny1 PDF documentation on the GNU Octav
pn  octave3.0-emacsen        <none>          (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-headers        <none>          (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-htmldoc        <none>          (no description available)
ii  octave3.0-info           1:3.0.1-6lenny1 GNU Info documentation on the GNU 


Versions of packages octave-symbolic 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                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcln5                1.2.2-2           Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-3         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.3-3           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.4            1.4.4-1           The GiNaC symbolic framework (runt
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-6           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090124-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3.1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.3-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave3.0              1:3.0.1-6lenny1   GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

octave-symbolic recommends no packages.

octave-symbolic suggests no packages.

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