[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#470632: octave3.0: mode returns a wrong answer for row vectors

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: normal

octave3.0> mode([2 3 1 2 3 4])
ans =  1
octave3.0> mode([2 3 1 2 3 4]')
ans =  2

The second is the correct answer.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.0-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0~rc2-1     GCC support library
ii  libglpk0               4.25-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080203-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.4-1+lenny1      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-8          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0~rc2-1       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-4     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  atlas3-base                   3.6.0-20.6 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1    A command-line driven interactive 

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