The preliminary package has been updated to the latest upstream code recently. Meanwhile upstream also worked on better Octave compatibility. The status of this effort is documented here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Octave There are a number of issue left to work on (both in SPM and Octave). Volunteers are very welcome to pick one and fix it! Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org