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bug #59338: [octave forge] (odepkg) Infinite loop when running `pkg test odepkg`

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Sat 24 Oct 2020 07:36:54 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
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Release:  * other Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
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Wed 28 Oct 2020 05:37:49 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I removed odepkg from the list of Octave Forge packages that are built in MXE Octave here:
https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/e50a3ed99da0

See also this message on the mailing list:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2020-10/msg00058.html

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Sat 24 Oct 2020 08:01:49 PM UTC, comment #2: 
Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Sat 24 Oct 2020 07:53:53 PM UTC, comment #1: 

How did you even get it? I think it was removed from octave-forge some 3 years ago.

Dmitri.
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Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov>
Sat 24 Oct 2020 07:36:54 PM UTC, original submission:  

When running `pkg test odepkg` with Octave 6.0.91 (odepkg 0.8.5), Octave gets stuck in what looks like an infinite loop that cannot be interrupted.
The following is repeated infinitely at the command prompt:

 DASKR--  ACTION WAS TAKEN. RUN TERMINATED
 DASKR--  THE LAST STEP TERMINATED WITH A NEGATIVE
 DASKR--  VALUE (=I1) OF IDID AND NO APPROPRIATE
      In above message,  I1 =        -1


I left it running for about 10 minutes. It looks like nothing changed in that time.
This loop cannot be interrupted. Neither with Ctrl+C, nor by trying to close the GUI. I had to kill the process.

I'm not sure if this package is still maintained. I couldn't find it on https://octave.sourceforge.io/packages.php .
The link to the bitbucket repository (which is supposed to be more up to date than Octave forge) is dead:
https://wiki.octave.org/Odepkg

Should we remove the package from MXE Octave?

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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