[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#348480: Bugs in octave2.1

[Rafael Laboissiere]

retitle 348480 octave2.1: polyfit breaks down over "large" x values
tags 348480 wontfix
clone 348480 -1
reassign -1 octave3.0
retitle -1 octave3.0: polyfit breaks down over "large" x values
thanks	  

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-01-02 22:58]:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:28:49PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-01-02 19:59]:
> > 
> > > Yes. #348480 is fixed in the development branch (3.1), but won't make it
> > > into the 3.0 branch (change of algorithm).
> > 
> > Would it be too complicated to backport the change into the octave3.0
> > package?
> 
> Good question. I just tested polyfit from the Mercurial head and it
> seems to work. Should we just use it instead of the default polyfit? It
> comes with 9 tests and all pass.

Okay, I am hereby cloning the bug report and reassigning it to octave3.0.  I
also tagged #348480 with wontfix, since octave2.1 will be dropped from
Debian post-lenny.  I will soon fix the new bug report against octave3.0 by
adding a dpatch.

-- 
Rafael