[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#477348: octave2.1: documentation of randn lacking detail

[Rafael Laboissiere]

package octave2.1
tags 477348 wontfix
thanks

* Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> [2008-04-22 16:50]:

> Package: octave2.1
> Version: 1:2.1.73-18+b1
> Severity: minor
> 
> The documentation of randn begins like this:
> 
>   Return a matrix with normally distributed random elements.
> 
> It should say instead:
> 
>   Return a matrix with normally distributed random elements with null
>   mean and unitary variance.

This bug is fixed in the octave3.0 package.  I am hereby tagging it
"wontfix" because the octave2.1 will be dropped from Debian after the lenny
release.  Users should be using octave3.0, which is the recommended stable
branch.

-- 
Rafael