Octave-specfun shadows built-in and core library functions

Bug #1460890 reported by johann.ka
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
octave-specfun (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Trusty
Fix Released
Low
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Utopic
Won't Fix
Low
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Bug Description

[Impact]

Octave-specfun shadows built-in and core library functions, which causes at least a several second hangup at startup (making especially heavy octave use in scripts frustrating) and an ominous warning.

warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows a built-in function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct shadows a built-in function

Reportedly Debian Jessi's package version 1.1.0-2 does not suffer from this problem, but it's unusable as such on Ubuntu due to dependency issues.

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: octave-specfun 1.1.0-1build1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-38-generic
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jun 1 21:00:00 2014SourcePackage: octave-specfun
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Test Case]

Make sure no warnings appear at startup.

[Regression Potential]

Negligible, no reverse dependencies and the functions that were moved to core are not built and removed from the install dir.

[Other Info]

Uploaded a full backport since the only code change was to fix this bug and the other changes were small, It should also make any possible maintenance in the LTS easier.

Micah Gersten (micahg)
affects: dapper-backports → octave-specfun (Ubuntu)
Micah Gersten (micahg)
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
description: updated
Micah Gersten (micahg)
description: updated
description: updated
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: New → Fix Committed
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello john_kaufi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted octave-specfun into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave-specfun/1.1.0-2~ubuntu14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote :

Hello john_kaufi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted octave-specfun into utopic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave-specfun/1.1.0-2~ubuntu14.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: Fix Committed → Won't Fix
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Trusty):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Utopic):
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: removed: octave specfun
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : [octave-specfun/trusty] verification still needed

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for trusty for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

tags: added: removal-candidate
Revision history for this message
J. S. Lopes (gavranha) wrote :

I've installed the package and the warnings are gone. I'll be using Octave for next days. If something goes wrong, I'll report. Thanks for the fix.

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
tags: added: trusty verification-done
removed: removal-candidate verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package octave-specfun - 1.1.0-2~ubuntu14.04.1

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octave-specfun (1.1.0-2~ubuntu14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to trusty (LP: #1460890)

octave-specfun (1.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Rafael Laboissiere ]
  * debian/watch: Use the SourceForge redirector
  * Remove obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed flag
  * debian/copyright: Use octave-maintainers mailing list as upstream contact
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed)
  * d/copyright: Ensure that all files are covered by copyright information
  * Remove functions which are now in Octave core (Closes: #741036)

  [ Thomas Weber ]
  * debian/control: Use canonical URLs in Vcs-* fields

  [ Sébastien Villemot ]
  * Add Rafael Laboissiere, Mike Miller and myself to Uploaders.

 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:15:05 -0500

Changed in octave-specfun (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for octave-specfun has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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