[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-statistics 1.1.0-1
Thomas Weber
tweber at debian.org
Sat Dec 3 22:47:41 UTC 2011
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
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