Bug#296973: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#296973: octave-forge: weekday has incorrect documentation

Paul Kienzle Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@users.sf.net>, 296973@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:57:18 -0500


Applied.

Thanks,

- Paul

On Feb 27, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> package octave-forge
> tags 296973 upstream
> forwarded 296973 octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
> thanks
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Denney <bill@givebillmoney.com> -----
>
> From: Bill Denney <bill@givebillmoney.com>
> Subject: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#296973: octave-forge: weekday has 
> incorrect documentation
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:54:30 -0500
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Reply-To: Bill Denney <bill@givebillmoney.com>, 296973@bugs.debian.org
>
> Package: octave-forge
> Version: 2004.11.16-3
> Severity: minor
>
> The weekday function has incorrect documentation.  Its documentation
> appears to be a copy of datevec's documentation.  The doc at the
> beginning should read something like:
>
> --- Begin Documentation
> ## -*- texinfo -*-
> ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[d,s] =} weekday(date, [P])
> ## Takes a date (in either datenum format or a string that datenum can
> ## parse) and returns the number for the day of the week (0 = "Sun",
> ## 1 = "Mon", ... , "Sat")
> ##
> ## The parameter @code{P} is needed to convert date strings with 2 
> digit
> ## years into dates with 4 digit years.  2 digit years are assumed to 
> be
> ## between @code{P} and @code{P+99}. If @code{P} is not given then the
> ## current year - 50 is used, so that dates are centered on the 
> present.
> ## For birthdates, you would want @code{P} to be current year - 99.  
> For
> ## appointments, you would want @code{P} to be current year.
> ##
> ## @seealso{date,clock,now,datestr,datenum,datevec,calendar}
> ## @end deftypefn
> --- End Documentation
>
> Hopefully, I'll be able to submit a patch that will help with making
> datevec accept strings soon, too.
>
> Bill
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
>
> Versions of packages octave-forge depends on:
> ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned 
> Linear Algebra
> ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-11        Library for computing 
> Fast Fourier
> ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared 
> libraries an
> ii  libcln3                  1.1.9-1         Class Library for Numbers 
> (C++)
> ii  libg2c0                  1:3.3.5-8       Runtime library for GNU 
> Fortran 77
> ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-6       GCC support library
> ii  libginac1.3              1.3.0-2         The GiNaC framework 
> (runtime libra
> ii  libgmp3                  4.1.4-5         Multiprecision arithmetic 
> library
> ii  libgsl0                  1.6-1           The GNU Scientific 
> Library (GSL) -
> ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 [ 1.6.2-3         Hierarchical Data Format 
> 5 (HDF5)
> ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange 
> library
> ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG 
> Group's JPEG
> ii  libncurses5              5.4-4           Shared libraries for 
> terminal hand
> ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
> ii  libqhull5                2003.1-1        Calculate convex hulls 
> and related
> ii  libreadline4             4.3-11          GNU readline and history 
> libraries
> ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session 
> Management
> ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-8       The GNU Standard C++ 
> Library v3
> ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol 
> client li
> ii  octave2.1                2.1.64-1        The GNU Octave language 
> for numeri
> ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension 
> (XKB) configu
> ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - 
> runtime
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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