According to scilab changelog it does not changed since
scilab (5.5.2-2ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium
* Enable debian/patches/fop-2.0.diff again to avoid a FTBFS since fop 2.0 is now in Ubuntu.
-- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:32:35 +0200
So it is graphics issue. Possible related to bug 1741447.
According to scilab changelog it does not changed since
scilab (5.5.2-2ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium
* Enable debian/ patches/ fop-2.0. diff again to avoid a FTBFS
since fop 2.0 is now in Ubuntu.
-- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:32:35 +0200
So it is graphics issue. Possible related to bug 1741447.