Octave package need upgrade to 4.0.3 from 4.0.0 as there is a problem with printf in the older release

[Neo]

Octave 4.0.0 has a printf issue that is fixed in 4.0.1.
This is a major bug and it causes printf issues as it is basically used for debugging octave programs.

Moreover 4.0.1 or 4.0.3 is a bug fix release.
Details of the bug fixes can be found in https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: octave 4.0.0-3ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Sep 17 21:41:05 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-13 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: octave
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Neo (pudumula-gmail)]

Is it possible to import the packages in https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/ubuntu/stable

[Mike Miller (mtmiller)]

Can you be specific about what the precise bug is that you think is worth a Stable Release Update (SRU)? It also helps to be specific in your bug report that what you want is an SRU (since the development release already has octave 4.0.3).

I don't think that it is possible to SRU octave in 16.04 because of the liboctave3 -> liboctave3v5 library transition.

As you mentioned, an easy workaround for any user is to configure and install octave from the PPA ppa:octave/stable.

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