Bug#896119: scilab: ATOMS system is broken in Scilab 6 on buster

[Nrbrtx]

Subject: scilab: ATOMS system is broken in Scilab 6 on buster
Package: scilab
Version: 6.0.1-1
Severity: important

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Debian 10 (x86_64 in my case)
2. Install `scilab` package (from buster or from unstable)
3. Launch Scilab from terminal with `scilab`
4. Try to show information of a package from ATOMS system with
`atomsShow('coselica')`

Expected results:
* Scilab updates local ATOMS cache, then shows information about Coselica
toolbox

Actual results:
* Scilab shows error in its console:

    Startup execution:
      loading initial environment

    --> atomsShow('coselica')
    Scanning repository http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0 ... Done

    at line   265 of function atomsDESCRIPTIONget (
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsDESCRIPTIONget.sci
line 284 )
    at line    31 of function atomsIsPackage      (
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsIsPackage.sci
line 47 )
    at line    43 of function atomsShow           (
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atomsShow.sci line 59 )

    atomsDESCRIPTIONget: save
('/home/debian/.Scilab/scilab-6.0.1/.atoms/packages') has failed.

and in terminal:

    HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread
140556419344320:
      #000: ../../../src/H5G.c line 553 in H5Gget_info(): invalid argument
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Bad value
    HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread
140556419344320:
      #000: ../../../src/H5G.c line 301 in H5Gcreate2(): not a location
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Inappropriate type
      #001: ../../../src/H5Gloc.c line 253 in H5G_loc(): invalid object ID
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Bad value
    HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread
140556419344320:
      #000: ../../../src/H5A.c line 265 in H5Acreate2(): not a location
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Inappropriate type
      #001: ../../../src/H5Gloc.c line 253 in H5G_loc(): invalid object ID
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Bad value
    HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread
140556419344320:
      #000: ../../../src/H5D.c line 121 in H5Dcreate2(): not a location ID
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Inappropriate type
      #001: ../../../src/H5Gloc.c line 253 in H5G_loc(): invalid object ID
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Bad value
    HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread
140556419344320:
      #000: ../../../src/H5F.c line 749 in H5Fclose(): not a file ID
        major: Invalid arguments to routine
        minor: Inappropriate type
    failed to close file




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages scilab depends on:
ii  scilab-cli       6.0.1-1
ii  scilab-full-bin  6.0.1-1

Versions of packages scilab recommends:
ii  scilab-doc  6.0.1-1

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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