[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#693873: octave-common: pkg ("list") not compatible with 'warning error Octave:str-to-num'

[Marc Cromme]

Package: octave-common
Version: 3.6.2-5
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

It appears that the installation of the packages

  octave-java 1.2.8-6   amd64
  octave-io   1.0.19-1  amd64

together with the promotion of warnings to errors

  warning error Octave:str-to-num

triggers the error, as installation of octave-java makes the read of the octave-io package file

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/io-1.0.19/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v48+/PKG_ADD

mandatory, which in turn crashes with an error in the

/usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 274, column 3

A short script triggering the undesired behaviour directly is this one:

--- snip ---
#!/usr/bin/octave -q
warning error Octave:str-to-num
pkg ("list");
--- snip ---

I did expect the code contained in the octave-common packages to support all kind of
promotion from warnings to errors, as this helps developing clean code.

best regards, and thanks for packaging octave,

Marc Cromme


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