On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 12:32:44AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, it's more of an oversight. octave3.0 has a higher priority than
octave3.2. I'm actually surprised it has taken so long for someone to
notice this.
> 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).
This is very likely a bug, although I currently don't see where it comes
from. As I want to get rid of octave3.0 for Squeeze, what are your
reasons for having it installed?
Thomas
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