Bug#815597: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#815597: Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Control: tags -1 fixed-in-experimental

* Rafael Laboissiere  [2016-02-23 10:23]:


Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: fixed -1 4.0.1~rc2-1

* Elvis Stansvik  [2016-02-22 21:26]:


Please consider patching the package with following fix from upstream:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45225

It was a regression in 4.0.0, and without the patch (which will be 
in 4.0.1), Octave is unusable with HDF5 files with integer data.


Thanks for the heads up.

If the upstream release 4.0.1 is imminent, then I think we will not 
bother releasing a fix for the 4.0.0 Debian package now.  Does anybody 
know when the upstream developers intend to release version 4.0.1?


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Bug#815597: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Elvis Stansvik  [2016-02-23 13:15]:

Thanks a lot for the recipe. At the moment we're using an Octave built 
from source to work around it.


You are welcome.

I just noted that a mistake slipped in my code in the previous message. 
There was an extraneous ":deb" at the end.  The first line should read instead:


   echo "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" > 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-experimental.list

Rafael

Bug#815597: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-02-23 10:23 GMT+01:00 Rafael Laboissiere :
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> Control: fixed -1 4.0.1~rc2-1
>
> * Elvis Stansvik  [2016-02-22 21:26]:
>>
>>
>> Please consider patching the package with following fix from upstream:
>>
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45225
>>
>> It was a regression in 4.0.0, and without the patch (which will be in
>> 4.0.1), Octave is unusable with HDF5 files with integer data.
>
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> If the upstream release 4.0.1 is imminent, then I think we will not bother
> releasing a fix for the 4.0.0 Debian package now.  Does anybody know when
> the upstream developers intend to release version 4.0.1?

Ah yes, I realized after I sent this report that 4.0.1 might be just
around the corner. At least they've had several RCs. If that is the
case, feel free to close this issue.

>
> For people reading this bug report and in a desperate need for the fix,
> please use the version of the octave package in experimental. This can be
> done by APT pinning.  Here is a simple-minded recipe (as root):

Thanks a lot for the recipe. At the moment we're using an Octave built
from source to work around it.

Elvis

>
>echo "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" >
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-experimental.list:deb
>cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-releases < Package: *
> Pin: release a=
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 500
> EOFaptitude updateaptitude install octave/experimental
> liboctave3v5/experimental octave-common/experimental
>
>
> Rafael

Bug#815597: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: fixed -1 4.0.1~rc2-1

* Elvis Stansvik  [2016-02-22 21:26]:


Please consider patching the package with following fix from upstream:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45225

It was a regression in 4.0.0, and without the patch (which will be in 
4.0.1), Octave is unusable with HDF5 files with integer data.


Thanks for the heads up.

If the upstream release 4.0.1 is imminent, then I think we will not 
bother releasing a fix for the 4.0.0 Debian package now.  Does anybody 
know when the upstream developers intend to release version 4.0.1?


For people reading this bug report and in a desperate need for the fix, 
please use the version of the octave package in experimental. This can be 
done by APT pinning.  Here is a simple-minded recipe (as root):


   echo "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" > 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-experimental.list:deb
   cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-releases <
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 500
EOF 
   aptitude update 
   aptitude install octave/experimental liboctave3v5/experimental octave-common/experimental



Rafael

Bug#815597: liboctave3: add upstream patch for HDF5 regression

[Elvis Stansvik]

Package: liboctave3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider patching the package with following fix from upstream:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45225

It was a regression in 4.0.0, and without the patch (which will be in
4.0.1), Octave is unusable with HDF5 files with integer data.

Best regards,
Elvis Stansvik

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