On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:46:23PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > The message below reports a bug involving two packages in sarge that are out > of sync, due to an API-related problem. This is a RC bug (although no bug > report has been filled) which is fixed in sid. What should we do?
The octave2.1 package is being held back by lack of a powerpc package. No idea why. I have generally given up following each and every package through -- we simply have too many architecture to keep this semi-reliable. I told the poster in a follow-up on octave-help to get himself fresh packages from unstable. For octave-plplot, the dependendies are much messier and releated to gcc 3.4 and the libunwind mess. That is way behind me, but my octave-forge is being bitten by the same problem. Dirk > -- > Rafael (maintainer of octave-plplot) > > > ----- Forwarded message from Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: plplot installation. > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:36:46 +0100 > To: Peter Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Octave_post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Debian GNU/Linux > > * Peter Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-27 21:52]: > > > I have recently installed Debian sarge on my PC at home. Its great..... > > I managed to install most of my favorite software, including > > version 2.1.60-1 of octave and version 4.0.0-2 of gnuplot, > > using the excellent package manager. > > > > However I encountered a problem with the installation of plplot. > > The version of plplot I tried to install was 5.3.1-1 i.e the > > version belonging to sarge. > > > > I got the following error message. > > > > octave:3> plinit > > error: API version api-v8 found in .oct file function `plplot_octave' > > does not match the running Octave (API version api-v11) > > this can lead to incorrect results or other failures > > you can fix this problem by recompiling this .oct file > > error: failed to install dld function `plplot_octave' > > error: `plplot_octave' undefined near line 1703 column 1 > > error: called from `plinit' > > > > For the sarge release it looks to me like the version of > > plplot is out of sync with octave. > > Indeed, it is. This problem is already fixed in sid (a.k.a. unstable) with > the following versions: > > octave2.1_2.1.64-1 > octave_plplot_5.3.1-2 > > Let us hope that these packages will enter sarge before release. > > -- > Rafael > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Rafael -- If you don't go with R now, you will someday. -- David Kane on r-sig-finance, 30 Nov 2004
