Cannot install Octave on Kubuntu 24.04 daily builds

Bug #2059841 reported by Archisman Panigrahi
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Bug Description

When I try to install Octave, I see the following error.

$ sudo apt install octave
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 octave : Depends: octave-common (= 8.4.0-1build1) but 8.4.0-1build4 is to be installed
          Recommends: gnuplot-qt but it is not going to be installed or
                      gnuplot-x11 or
                      gnuplot-nox
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Here is the output of
$ apt show octave
Package: octave
Version: 8.4.0-1build1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/math
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Octave Group <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 39.8 MB
Provides: octave-abi-58
Depends: libamd3 (>= 1:7.0.1), libarpack2 (>= 2.1), libblas3 | libblas.so.3, libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.38), libccolamd3 (>= 1:7.0.1), libcholmod5 (>= 1:7.3.1), libcolamd3 (>= 1:7.0.1), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libcxsparse4 (>= 1:7.0.1), libfftw3-double3 (>= 3.3.10), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.10), libfltk-gl1.3 (>= 1.3.0), libfltk1.3 (>= 1.3.3), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.4.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.0), libgfortran5 (>= 8), libgl1, libgl2ps1.4 (>= 1.4.2+dfsg1), libglpk40 (>= 4.59), libglu1-mesa | libglu1, libgomp1 (>= 4.2.1), libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (>= 1.3.26-5~), libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (>= 1.3.5), libhdf5-103-1, liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113), libqhull-r8.0 (>= 2020.1), libqrupdate1 (>= 1.1.1), libqscintilla2-qt5-15 (>= 2.11.2), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.14.1) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.14.1), libqt5help5 (>= 5.15.1), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.15.1), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.0.2), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libspqr4 (>= 1:7.3.1+dfsg), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libsuitesparseconfig7 (>= 1:7.0.1), libsundials-ida6 (>= 6.4.1+dfsg1), libsundials-sunlinsol3 (>= 6.4.1+dfsg1), libumfpack6 (>= 1:7.0.1), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.11), texinfo, octave-common (= 8.4.0-1build1)
Recommends: gnuplot-qt | gnuplot-x11 | gnuplot-nox, libopenblas0 | libblis4, pstoedit, epstool, default-jre-headless, octave-doc
Suggests: octave-dev
Homepage: https://www.octave.org/
Download-Size: 10.1 MB
APT-Sources: http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages
Description: GNU Octave language for numerical computations
 Octave is a (mostly MATLAB® compatible) high-level language, primarily
 intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line
 interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
 .
 Octave can be dynamically extended with user-supplied C++ files.

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