Comment 22 for bug 1870813

Norbert, thanks for the updates. The package has been uploaded to Focal and is waiting approval.

As for Bionic, I will cherry pick some patches. Scilab 6.1 introduced the fileio module which depends on std::filesystem::weakly_canonical that is only available on libstdc++-8. Bionic uses gcc/g++ 7 by default, so we are not recompiling scilab with gcc/g++ 8.