[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#626264: Bug#626264: Bug#626264: Bug#626264: octave-miscellaneous: Please upload new upstream (1.0.11) release

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:24:41PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 10 May 2011 14:51, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:54:24PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> >> Package: octave-miscellaneous
> >> Version: 1.0.9-1+b1
> >> Severity: minor
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> octave-optim, in it 1.0.16-1 version, uploaded on 23. April, depends on
> >> octave-miscellaneous >= 1.0.11, so please upload it to allow the installation
> >> of octave-optim/unstable.
> >
> > From miscellaneous 1.0.11:
> > [map]
> >  ***** test
> >  assert(map(@min,[1 2 3 4 5],[5 4 3 2 1]), [1 2 3 2 1])
> >  assert(map(@min,rand(1,5),[0 0 0 0 0]), [0 0 0 0 0])
> >  assert(map(@(x,y) (sin(x).^2 + cos(y).^2),-pi:0.5:+pi,-pi:0.5:+pi),ones(1,13))
> > !!!!! test failed
> > assert (map (@(x, y) (sin (x) .^ 2 + cos (y) .^ 2);
> > , -pi:0.5:+pi, -pi:0.5:+pi),ones (1, 13)) expected
> >   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
> > but got
> >   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
> >
> >
> > The problem is that Octave 3.2 isn't consistent in what ones() returns:
> > ...
> > GNU Octave, version 3.2.4
> > ...
> > octave:1> typeinfo(ones(1,13))
> > ans = range
> > octave:2> typeinfo(ones(2,13))
> > ans = matrix
> >
> > I don't have the build power on my notebook to build 3.4. Can you check wether
> > this has changed there?
> >
> 
>      octave:1> typeinfo(ones(1,2))
>      ans = range
>      octave:2> typeinfo(ones(2,2))
>      ans = matrix
>      octave:3> version
>      ans = 3.5.0+
> 
> But I don't think this is a problem; it's a useful optimisation. 

I have a bit of a problem accepting 

octave:3> assert([1,1,1], ones(1,3))
error: assert ([1, 1, 1],ones (1, 3)) expected
   1   1   1
   but got
   1   1   1
   Type matrix != range

as not being a bug. This has nothing to do with map().

	Thomas