Please update Octave to version 3.0.3 (intrepid/hardy)

[Nicola Ferralis]

Binary package hint: octave3.0

Packages in Hardy/Intrepid are still in version 3.0.1. Upstream released 3.0.3 as pure bugfix release (no new features).

Packages in Hardy/Intrepid should be updated accordingly.

Upstream patches from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 are attached.

[dino (adinov)]

I'm a newbie, but I really need Octave3.0.3
Its available on some other repositories, but I just cannot figure out how to install it. Can someone please help me??

I downloaded
octave3.0_3.0.3-1_i386.deb
and went through downloading and installing all the dependancies one by one. Then it said that it needs
libpcre3
but I already had the latest version of installed! so I am now stuck!

I also tried pointing the adept installer to one of the repositories that had octave3.0_3.0.3-1_i386.deb, but for some reason, it wouldn't recognize it.

So now I am completely stuck.

Please help!!

[dino (adinov)]

Daer thisismalhotra,

We need your expertise to fix this little bug in octave for Ubuntu. Please help!

Alex D.

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

My vote to upgrading this at least in backports or somewhere.

[phil (fongpwf)]

Looks like even Jaunty is 3.0.1

[Bhavani Shankar (bhavi)]

hello

@ dino

From where did you download the deb?

[Joseph Smidt (jsmidt)]

Here is the debdiff needed to close this bug.

*Note, this package depends on suitesparse being updated as it is a build depends.*
I have made the appropriate debdiff for suitesparse here: (Please update this package first.)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/suitesparse/+bug/319054

[rmcd (rmcd1024)]

In Intrepid, open Octave in a shell, type "clear all", and Octave 3.0.1 will segfault every time.

So I'm adding my vote to upgrade Octave to 3.0.3. Thanks.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

This debdiff doesn't actually change anything in the Debian package, and therefore is not required. Please follow the sync request process from [0] to get this package into Ubuntu instead. Thanks.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

I'm unsubscribing u-u-s because you are requesting an update to a stable release, which should be judged my motu-sru or ubuntu-backporters teams. Please have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports and subscribe correspondant team accordingly.

[phil (fongpwf)]

The backports guidelines indicate the package must already be in Ubuntu's repositories. As far as I can tell 3.0.3 is not in any repository (Jaunty is still 3.0.1). Does this mean it is not eligible for backports?

[mcnicholls (nicholls-mc)]

I have just been trying to rebuild octave3.0 for Jaunty in light of libsuitesparse-3.1.0 -> libsuitesparse-3.2.0 and it FTBFS due to changes in libsuitesparse.

Seen as libsuitesparse-3.1.0 is NBS something has to be done to octave3.0 to get it to compile.

It looks like this issue has been addressed in the debian package, the latest of which is 1:3.0.4~rc7-1, which has made it into unstable in debian as it has been judged to be of release quality. Seen as it is a RC and it has been a while since it was last synced i am unsure if a sync is the correct move at this point in the cycle?

It looks like this was fixed in debian some point in the 1:3.0.3 release and was fixed upstream in 1:3.0.4~rc3-1 (deb patch was dropped).

Any thoughts?

[Christian Neumair (chris-gnome-de)]

Ping.

https://launchpad.net/~bhavi/+archive/ppa/+index?start=75&batch=75

offers version 3.03, but the official version seems to be 3.0.5.

[Christian Neumair (chris-gnome-de)]

I'd like to point out that one can download Debian's 3.0.5 source code from

http://packages.debian.org/de/source/sid/octave3.0

and build it manually after changing

GCCCURVER := $(shell gcc --version | perl -ne '/Debian (.*)-/; print "$$1"; last')

to

GCCCURVER := $(shell gcc --version | perl -ne '/Ubuntu (.*)-/; print "$$1"; last')

in debian/rules. You will also have to build & upgrade octave-communications and a myriade of octave packages, though.

[Rebecca Palmer (rebecca-palmer)]

Karmic now has 3.0.5, the current upstream version. (Ubuntu bugs are officially "fix released" when fixed in the development version: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status)

This 3.0.5 package depends on upgrades to several libraries including libstdc++6, so one can't simply install it in Intrepid as is; I do not know whether it would be possible to compile 3.0.5 against the Intrepid versions of these libraries.