Package: octave Version: 4.0.3-3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
I was having some network troubles recently, and I was using octave. A short time after launching the program (octave --force, I was greeted with "Octave's community news source seems to be unavailable. For the latest news, please check http://octave.org/community-news.html when you have a connection to the web (link opens in an external browser)." I was a little concerned at this message, as in the settings, the option "Allow Octave to connect to the Octave web site to display current news and information" is unchecked. So it seems that this may not be being honoured? I can't see how octave would know that my network was down (at the router level) without performing a URL request. I admit I have not attempted to locate the code responsible for this, so apologies if there is a mistake on my part. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages octave depends on: ii libamd2 1:4.5.4-1 ii libarpack2 3.4.0-1+b1 ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.10.3-1+b1 ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 3.7.0-2 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcamd2 1:4.5.4-1 ii libccolamd2 1:4.5.4-1 ii libcholmod3 1:4.5.4-1 ii libcolamd2 1:4.5.4-1 ii libcxsparse3 1:4.5.4-1 ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.5-3 ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.5-3 ii libfltk-gl1.3 1.3.4-4 ii libfltk1.3 1.3.4-4 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 13.0.6-1+b2 ii libglpk40 4.61-1 ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2.1 ii libgomp1 6.3.0-18 ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.7.0-2 ii liboctave3v5 4.0.3-3 ii libosmesa6 13.0.6-1+b2 ii libportaudio2 19.6.0-1 ii libqhull7 2015.2-2 ii libqrupdate1 1.1.2-2 ii libqscintilla2-12v5 2.9.3+dfsg-4 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11 ii libqt4-opengl 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11 ii libsndfile1 1.0.27-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libumfpack5 1:4.5.4-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii octave-common 4.0.3-3 ii texinfo 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2 Versions of packages octave recommends: ii default-jre-headless 2:1.8-58 ii gnuplot-x11 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1 ii libatlas3-base 3.10.3-1+b1 ii octave-info 4.0.3-3 ii pstoedit 3.70-3+b2 Versions of packages octave suggests: pn octave-doc <none> pn octave-htmldoc <none> -- no debconf information