libc6 breaks Octave

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi Joel, and whoever else is listening,

I did a partial upgrade to the most recent potato, now Octave breaks:

edd@sonny:~> octave
GNU Octave, version 2.0.14 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...
Aborted                                                                    

edd@sonny:~> dpkg -s octave
Package: octave
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: math
Installed-Size: 6402
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Version: 2.0.14-1
Depends: libc6, libncurses4, libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-13), libstdc++2.9, less, info (>= 3.12) | info-browser
[...]

and

edd@sonny:~> ldd /usr/bin/octave-2.0.14
        liboctinterp.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.0.14/liboctinterp.so (0x40001000)
        liboctave.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.0.14/liboctave.so (0x4018e000)
        libcruft.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.0.14/libcruft.so (0x40263000)
        libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x403a8000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x403d5000)
        libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x403f2000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40434000)
        libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 (0x40437000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4047b000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
edd@sonny:~>                                                           

Octave makes heavy uses of C++, if that matters. I vaguely remember hearing
about C++ upgrade issues. Is there a consensus or policy ?

Thanks,

Dirk

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