Created attachment 370778 [details, diff] proposed patch The test in pkg_pretend uses the "!=" operator in a check. But this "test operator" is quite misleading since the result it gives is not really the one people expect ... As a result, it is not possible to update octave, even if the dependency have been build with the current blas lib The proposed patch replace the use of "!=" and "==" with the proper operator "-ne" and "-eq". One typo is also fixed.
Applied, thanks: Thanks to Olivier Huber for fixing and reporting bug 501784: replace the use of "!=" and "==" in pkg_pretend with the proper operator "-ne" and "-eq". One typo is also fixed.