octave-io (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium Note that auto-loading of java libraries is now disabled, because it significantly increases the startup time of octave. This means that, by default, the package has access to less interfaces, and in particular can no longer read XLS files. See README.Debian for instructions on manually activating these java-based interfaces. -- Sébastien Villemot Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:07:46 +0200