2016-02-23 10:23 GMT+01:00 Rafael Laboissiere <[email protected]>: > Control: tags -1 confirmed > Control: fixed -1 4.0.1~rc2-1 > > * Elvis Stansvik <[email protected]> [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 <<EOF > Package: * > Pin: release a=<whichever-distribution-you-are-using> > Pin-Priority: 600 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=experimental > Pin-Priority: 500 > EOF aptitude update aptitude install octave/experimental > liboctave3v5/experimental octave-common/experimental > > > Rafael
