[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-statistics 1.1.0-1

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:05:15PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> The package buils correctly and is lintian clean, but there are 3
> failures in the testsuite:
> 
> 1) princomp.m: this failure is expected
> 
> 2) tbl_delim.m: this is because the file is under private/ subdir, and
>    octave-pkg-dev does not deal with this
> 
> 3) linkage.m: this failure is spurious, because the tests pass when I run
>    "test linkage" after installing the package. But if you put this in a
>    M-file:
> 
>     warning foo
>     test linkage
> 
>    Then this M-file fails: it is as if the first warning was corrupting
>    the test which is performed in linkage. In the package testsuite, it
>    is the warning created by princomp which interferes with the test in
>    linkage. I guess this is a bug in Octave, unless you have a better
>    explanation.
> 
> So on the overall I think the package is ok and can be uploaded. We have
> to think about solutions for 2) and 3).
> 
> For 2), I suggest to file a bug against octave-pkg-dev until we have the
> time to work this out (probably after the 3.4 transition).
> 
> Any suggestion for 3) ?

We should check this with 3.4. I intend to defer the octave-statistics
upload until then. 

	Thomas