Bug#738456: scilab: Missing library "libscisignal_processing.so"

[Josef Kaspar Schmid]

Package: scilab
Version: 5.5.0~beta-1-1~exp4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

Started scilab and called the function iir()

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Called the function like the example in the help section for iir():

hz=iir(3,'bp','ellip',[.15 .25],[.08 .03]);

   * What was the outcome of this action?

System responded with the following message:

 previous error has been detected while loading libscisignal_processing.so:
libscisignal_processing.so: Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 !--error 999
Impossible to load libscisignal_processing.so library: (null)
at line      17 of function %asn called by :
at line      30 of function findm called by :
at line      17 of function find_freq called by :
at line      44 of function analpf called by :
at line      62 of function iir called by :
hz=iir(3,'bp','ellip',[.15 .25],[.08 .03]);

If you can't understand the german part of the message, this is the
translation:

"Can't open shared-object-file: File or folder not found"

After that, I searched for libscisignal_processing.so on the system but there
was no such file. Seems it was not installed in the first place.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Calculation of the parameters for a digital IIR-Filter.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages scilab depends on:
ii  scilab-cli       5.5.0~beta-1-1~exp4
ii  scilab-full-bin  5.5.0~beta-1-1~exp4+b1

Versions of packages scilab recommends:
ii  scilab-doc  5.5.0~beta-1-1~exp4

Versions of packages scilab suggests:
pn  scilab-doc-fr     <none>
pn  scilab-doc-ja     <none>
pn  scilab-doc-pt-br  <none>

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