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

[Sébastien Villemot]

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) ?

Best,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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