Stefano,

Almost four week ago, I asked you for a reproducible example. Without one, I
will have to close the bug report for lack of actual verifyability.

Regards, Dirk

On 2 February 2005 at 19:05, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| Ciao Stefano
| 
| On 1 February 2005 at 17:46, Stefano Simonucci wrote:
| | On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 06:18 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| | > severity 293136 normal
| | > tags 293136 + moreinfo
| | > tags 293136 + upstream
| | > thanks
| | > 
| | > On 1 February 2005 at 12:28, Stefano Simonucci wrote:
| | > | Package: libgsl0
| | > | Version: 1.1.1-1
| | > 
| | > Are you sure you used 1.1.1-1? That version is almost three years old ...
| | > The current version is 1.6-1.
| | 
| | Sorry. When I have sent the report I have also downgraded to can perform
| | my calculations. Nevertheless the package with the problems that I have
| | said is the 1.6-1. 
| 
| I sort-of suspected as much. 
| 
| | > | Severity: important
| | > | 
| | > | I have a program that use the runge-kutta 4th order implicit method with
| | > | variable step. Today I have upgraded libgsl0 and libgsl0-dev and the
| | > | execution of my program is slowed down. It seems that the number of step
| | > | (in the runge-kutta method) is enormously increased.
| | > 
| | > Not necessarily a bug -- the old method may have been faulty or less
| | > robust. Certainly not an important bug if it still works.  
| | > 
| | 
| | If the program is too slow (100 days instead of one day) many types of
| | calculations becomes impracticable. 
| 
| Sure, I was merely suggesting that the program may have taken incorrect
| shortcuts.
| 
| But it probably is a bug upstream.  COuld you distill a simple self-contained
| example?  That would help the gsl'ers.
| 
| Best regards, Dirk
| 
| | > Can you please try to provide a complete test case so that the gsl 
developers
| | > actually have something to go by?  Compiler versions etc pp would also
| | > help. The GSL manual may have specific suggestions for gsl bug reports.
| | > 
| | > As it currently stands, your bug report is a little vague.
| | > 
| | > Regards,  Dirk
| | > 
| | 
| | Right! Maybe this is not a bug of the debian package. Thank you 
| | Best regards
| |    Stefano
| 
| -- 
| Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise 
| answer to the wrong question.  --  John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers

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