[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#523042: octave3.0: loading a datafile skips every second line

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Wed Apr 8 06:53:48 UTC 2009


package octave3.0
tags 523042 upstream confirmed pending
severity normal
thanks

* Drew Parsons <dparsons at 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

-- 
Rafael





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