Package: src:h5utils Version: 1.12.1-1 Severity: important The current version of h5utils build-depends on octave3.2-headers. This later package will be removed from unstable once the transition to the new version of octave (currently 3.6.1) will be completed (see the wiki page of the DOG [1]).
Simply changing the build-dependency from octave3.2-headers to liboctave-dev fixes the issue. Two additional comments, that are not really related to the bug reported here but are worth mentioning (tell me if you prefer that I file separated bug reports for the points below): 1) You might add "Suggests: octave" to h5utils. This would give an indication to the users that there is an Octave plugin included in the package. 2) On my i386 system, the h5read.oct file is installed in: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/3.6.1/site/oct/i486-pc-linux-gnu/ Notice that this is a versioned path. This means that the script will not be in the Octave path if the octave package is upgraded upstream (unless the user explicitly include it via addpath). Actually, the directory above is reserved for the pristine Octave files, not really appropriate for plugins. This path is obtained by the following code in configure.ac: OCT_INSTALL_DIR=`octave-config --oct-site-dir Plugins should be installed in one of the following paths (the example below is shown is for the i386 architeture): $ octave-config --print LOCALOCTFILEDIR /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/i486-pc-linux-gnu $ octave-config --print LOCALAPIOCTFILEDIR /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/api-v48+/i486-pc-linux-gnu Note that the last one has the API number, which may be (or not) a good thing. Rafael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Rafael _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel