On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:28:32AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: > ons, 16 06 2010 kl. 19:15 -0400, skrev Alex Lancaster: > > I'm the maintainer for the Fedora package of octave-forge > > Thanks for doing that :-) > > > I have definitely tracked this down to "ann" being the issue, > > removing the package, makes the crashes go away. Is this a > > known issue with "ann"? Apparently it hasn't been updated in > > SVN for a while, the last update (r6006) was to allow it to > > compile with Octave 3.2 and newer SWIG, but nothing since: > > > > http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave?view=revision&revision=6006 > > > > Hopefully the "ann" maintainer can look into it, and let > > us know what needs to be done, or if not, let us know whether > > "ann" is still being actively maintained. Otherwise we may > > just have to remove it from the Fedora package. > > 'ann' is a SWIG generated package, right? Sadly, these packages never > worked properly and never saw much maintenance. Unless somebody steps up > and actually fixes the SWIG stuff for Octave, I would recommend just > dropping the SWIG packages from Fedora. > > An alternative would be to ensure that SWIG generated packages are never > loaded by default and produce a warning when they are loaded?
FWIW, that's what we have in Debian: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/octave-ann/1.0.2+dfsg-2/autoload-no.diff http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/octave-ann/1.0.2+dfsg-2/warn-clear-all-at-init.diff I should note however that I don't consider this a permanent solution. If no one cares about the ann package in octave-forge proper, it will be removed from Debian at some point. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
