Package: octave3.2 Version: 3.2.4-3 Severity: normal octave3.2 does not respect the alternatives setting (the symlinks for /usr/bin/octave, set with update-alternatives).
There are two aspects to the bug. 1) Firstly, the default alternatives setting is "auto". In principle this is fine, except that it's automatically going to octave3.0 instead of octave3.2. I don't know if this is a bug or not but it's certainly annoying. 2) More significantly, octave3.2 simply does not respect the alternatives configuration made manually via "update-alternatives --config octave". Because of the auto config bug described above, I need to use manual configuration to switch the alternatives configuration from "auto (=octave3.0)" to octave3.2 explicitly. But whenever octave3.2 is upgraded (the most recent is today's new version 3.2.4-3), the alternatives configuration is reset back to "auto" (and therefore back to octave3.0). It's truly distressing to find your scripts all of a sudden fail to work for no reason at all. All because your default version of octave was silently downgraded. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages octave3.2 depends on: ii libamd2.2.0 1:3.4.0-1 approximate minimum degree orderin ii libarpack2 2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar ii libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-24 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra ii libblas3gf [libb 1.2-4 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcamd2.2.0 1:3.4.0-1 symmetric approximate minimum degr ii libccolamd2.7.1 1:3.4.0-1 constrained column approximate lib ii libcholmod1.7.1 1:3.4.0-1 sparse Cholesky factorization libr ii libcolamd2.7.1 1:3.4.0-1 column approximate minimum degree ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.19.7-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libcxsparse2.2.3 1:3.4.0-1 concise sparse matrix library (com ii libfftw3-3 3.2.2-1 library for computing Fast Fourier ii libfltk1.1 1.1.10-2 Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libftgl2 2.1.3~rc5-3 library to render text in OpenGL u ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-3 GCC support library ii libgfortran3 4.4.3-3 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglpk0 4.43-1 linear programming kit with intege ii libglu1-mesa [li 7.7-4 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libgomp1 4.4.3-3 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libgraphicsmagic 1.3.11-1 format-independent image processin ii libgraphicsmagic 1.3.11-1 format-independent image processin ii libhdf5-serial-1 1.8.4-5 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjasper1 1.900.1-7 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblapack3gf [li 3.2.1-2 library of linear algebra routines ii liblcms1 1.18.dfsg-1.2+b1 Color management library ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcre3 7.8-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqhull5 2009.1-1 calculate convex hulls and related ii libqrupdate1 1.0.1-1 Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de ii libreadline6 6.1-1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.9.2-3+b1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libumfpack5.4.0 1:3.4.0-1 sparse LU factorization library ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-6.1 Windows metafile conversion librar ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library ii octave3.2-common 3.2.4-3 architecture-independent files for ii texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Documentation system for on-line i ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages octave3.2 recommends: ii gnuplot 4.2.6-1 A command-line driven interactive ii libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-24 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Versions of packages octave3.2 suggests: pn octave3.2-doc <none> (no description available) ii octave3.2-emacsen 3.2.4-3 Emacs support for the GNU Octave l pn octave3.2-headers <none> (no description available) pn octave3.2-htmldoc <none> (no description available) ii octave3.2-info 3.2.4-3 GNU Info documentation on the GNU -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
