package octave3.0
tags 523042 upstream confirmed pending
severity normal
thanks
* Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org> [2009-04-08 11:54]:
> Package: octave3.0
> Version: 1:3.0.4~rc7-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
> Using the load function to read in a data file, it now skips every
> second line.
>
> You can see the bug with this simple test:
>
> $ cat > test.dat
> 0 100
> 1 200
> 2 300
> 3 400
> 4 500
> 5 600
> $ octave -q
> octave:1> a = load("test.dat")
> a =
>
> 0 100
> 2 300
> 4 500
>
>
> It was working fine two weeks ago, perhaps it is some bug in the new
> release candidate?
This bug has been confirmed upstream [1] and it also appears in the final
3.0.4 release. The fix is already integrated in the next release
candidate tarball 3.0.5-rc1 [2]. I have already backported the patch
into the forthcoming 3.0.4-1 release of octave3.0 [3], which will be
uploaded soon to unstable [4].
I am hereby lowering the severity level of this bug report, otherwise
3.0.4~rc7-1 will be prevented from entering testing. We have been
waiting months for this to happen and we have already scheduled the
uploads of all octave-forge pkgs that depend on it [5]. Feel free to
revert the severity level if you really think that the package should not
hit testing with this bug and we will discuss it further.
[1] http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-April/008346.html
[2]
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-April/011761.html
[3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/octave/trunk/debian/?rev=2786&sc=1
[4]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2009-April/005646.html
[5]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2009-April/005644.html
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Rafael
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