What is a 'turd_octave'? this occurred during the most recent update to the octave package

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

What is a 'turd_octave'? this occurred during the most recent update to the
octave package...

recreating package description from .turd_octave
warning: directory .turd_octave is not a valid package
warning: called from
    rebuild at line 71 column 7
    pkg at line 707 column 9


Thanks,
Ken Wolcott