[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#391033: octave2.9: bad behaviour with hold on/off

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

* Francesco Potorti` <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> [2006-10-06 09:31]:

> Only thing is, I downloaded the latest Debian sources of octave 2.9,
> applied the patch and installed it.  Then, I also downloaded and
> installed the latest octave-forge 2.9.  For some reason, octave 2.9 does
> not see the octave-forge functions.  I had to add an explicit
> 
>  addpath (genpath ("/usr/share/octave/site/api-v21"));
> 
> at the end of /etc/octave2.9.conf

As you discovered above, the octave2.9-forge package was built against
octave2.9_2.9.8.  Since the API number changed for octave2.9_2.9.9, you
experienced the problem above (and found the hack to fix it).

I hope I will upload a new version of octave2.9-forge soon.

-- 
Rafael